Chicken scratch writing.

[napanutt]

Anyone else this bad?

So I took notes the other day regarding utilities etc for our new home in New Hampshire. Figured I might need some contact info when we’re there but didn’t want to tear the sheet off the pad so I took a screen shot.

I always have wifey transcribe unless she isn’t handy. Obviously she wasn’t handy then.

 

[4Waters]

Anyone else this bad?

So I took notes the other day regarding utilities etc for our new home in New Hampshire. Figured I might need some contact info when we’re there but didn’t want to tear the sheet off the pad so I took a screen shot.

I always have wifey transcribe unless she isn’t handy. Obviously she wasn’t handy then.
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Shit yeah, I write like a kindergartener

 

[napanutt]

Shit yeah, I write like a kindergartener

Thanks. I’d like to think I’m a solid 2nd maybe 3rd grader.

 

[DarkHorseRacing]

That’s not bad at all. You’re not even in the same league as lawyers, doctors and pharmacists.

Your writing is a lot like my brothers. But neither of us are worse than our dad.

 

[Boatymcboatface]

Lol my dads a Fairly famous anatomy teacher and text book author and he can’t even read his own notes!

We used this to our advantage growing up when he’d leave us a list of chores. He’d get home and ask “why didn’t you do the things on the list!?” We’d say we couldn’t read it! So he’d try and read it and we’ll we didn’t get in trouble very often for not doing our chores.

 

[4Waters]

Thanks. I’d like to think I’m a solid 2nd maybe 3rd grader.

That's swinging high

 

[bowtiejunkie]

You sure there was a call? Doesn’t look like any useful chicken scratch there

 

[Desert Whaler]

It's like reading @H20 Toie, but in handwriting !

 

[welldigger00]

I thought mine was bad. My 20 and 22 year old are horrible! Kids don’t hand write any longer. All typed correspondence now.

 

[Nordie]

I've always called mine left handed chicken scratch.

I try to be proper on here, but in real life I write in all caps, it seems easier for me to go back and read when I need it.

 

[4Waters]

I've always called mine left handed chicken scratch.

I try to be proper on here, but in real life I write in all caps, it seems easier for me to go back and read when I need it.

I write in all caps

 

[napanutt]

It's like reading @H20 Toie, but in handwriting !

I can usually read it like I’m sure Dan can usually read his.

 

[napanutt]

I've always called mine left handed chicken scratch.

I try to be proper on here, but in real life I write in all caps, it seems easier for me to go back and read when I need it.

I write in all caps

Most peeps, especially guys I know, write in all caps. My dad does.
For some reason I went straight from cursive in elementary school to the shit you saw above.

 

[4Waters]

Most peeps, especially guys I know, write in all caps. My dad does.
For some reason I went straight from cursive in elementary school to the shit you saw above.

My cursive is horrible, I never could figure it out.

 

[DarkHorseRacing]

Lol my dads a Fairly famous anatomy teacher and text book author and he can’t even read his own notes!

We used this to our advantage growing up when he’d leave us a list of chores. He’d get home and ask “why didn’t you do the things on the list!?” We’d say we couldn’t read it! So he’d try and read it and well we didn’t get in trouble very often for not doing our chores.

Netter?

 

[ka0tyk]

I took a drafting class in high school pre-cad and ever since then my writing changed to all caps and perfectly aligned and straight etc. it looks pretty, but I’ve almost failed some classes because they “required cursive” and I never bothered to use it.

 

[Boatymcboatface]

Netter?

Pedro Nava, PhD, Human Anatomy Author – Elsevier Authors

Dr. Nava is an award-winning educator and innovative researcher in the human anatomy field as well as co-author of Atlas of Clinical Gross Anatomy.

bookmark.elsevierhealth.com

 

[Havasu blue label]

Anyone else this bad?

So I took notes the other day regarding utilities etc for our new home in New Hampshire. Figured I might need some contact info when we’re there but didn’t want to tear the sheet off the pad so I took a screen shot.

I always have wifey transcribe unless she isn’t handy. Obviously she wasn’t handy then.
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Looks like my job walks notes

 

[spectra3279]

I make doctors hand writing look good

 

[SBMech]

You know it's pretty bad when you go over them a few weeks later and can't even decipher them yourself....

Yep. I am that guy.

Yours is maybe a notch better than mine lol! I've taken to using my phone to document everything now, at least as far as license plates/VIN/Odometer etc.

I can make it legible, if I really focus and try....block letters ftw!

 

[monkeyswrench]

If I want it read by someone, I usually print. That looks fairly neat and orderly.

Job/work notes, well, that turns into a cross between sketches and cursive. Only punctuation would be question marks or an underscore...basically, shop or garage "hieroglyphics"

I consider them to be "personally encrypted files"

 

[DarkHorseRacing]

Pedro Nava, PhD, Human Anatomy Author – Elsevier Authors

Dr. Nava is an award-winning educator and innovative researcher in the human anatomy field as well as co-author of Atlas of Clinical Gross Anatomy.

bookmark.elsevierhealth.com

That’s cool!

 

[napanutt]

If I want it read by someone, I usually print. That looks fairly neat and orderly.

Job/work notes, well, that turns into a cross between sketches and cursive. Only punctuation would be question marks or an underscore...basically, shop or garage "hieroglyphics"

I consider them to be "personally encrypted files"

Funny thing. My kid is a service writer. He has to decipher rambled writing from mechanics. He showed me a few. Made no sense to me but he was able to translate them and make them sort of make sense to me.

 

[HOOTER SLED-]

Sloppy mutha fuckaaaa...

 

[HTTP404]

I had to have my kid fill out some form at the Veterinarian's office cause I couldn't read or write within the confines of that form.

 

[monkeyswrench]

Funny thing. My kid is a service writer. He has to decipher rambled writing from mechanics. He showed me a few. Made no sense to me but he was able to translate them and make them sort of make sense to me.

My wife's a kindergarten teacher...she can decode Sanskrit!

 

[RitcheyRch]

My writing has definitely gotten worse and I blame it being on typing.

 

[renodaytona]

I make doctors hand writing look good

Same here when it's notes for me, I have to concentrate and go slower when I know someone else has to read it.

 

[Badchoices03]

I took a drafting class in high school pre-cad and ever since then my writing changed to all caps and perfectly aligned and straight etc. it looks pretty, but I’ve almost failed some classes because they “required cursive” and I never bothered to use it.

LOL..same here, drafting class taught you to write in all caps and in perfectly aligned and spaced rows....so to this day, my writing when I take my time is that way...on the other hand, if I am just writing something down quickly, it looks very similar to above...

 

[EPL]

Looks like mine !

 

[Gelcoater]

Anyone else this bad?

So I took notes the other day regarding utilities etc for our new home in New Hampshire. Figured I might need some contact info when we’re there but didn’t want to tear the sheet off the pad so I took a screen shot.

I always have wifey transcribe unless she isn’t handy. Obviously she wasn’t handy then.
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I feel a little better about myself this morning

You may want to consider using an iPad or something for notes.
Or?
Go full 1800s.
Have someone lettered write it for you and just leave your mark.

 

[monkeyswrench]

My writing has definitely gotten worse and I blame it being on typing.

I'm screwed. I can't type for crap...hunt and peck method. My writing just sucks!

My middle kid, he can type easily 60+! His cursive is slow, but very neat, and his printing is like a printed sheet.

My youngest...well, his writing and typing skills are more akin to mine

 

[angiebaby]

LOL, I taught middle school for 15 years. I deciphered a lot of chicken scratch. I only had one young man who I refused to accept his work. I told him so many times to either rewrite it legibly or email his work to me. He refused most of the time, so he got a lot of zeros. His mom totally supported me. Gifted kid, very smart but none of his friends could tell. Total slob. Picked his nose.

 

[Go-Fly]

I'm old enough now I just tell people I had a stroke and they get all apologetic and shit for making fun of my handwriting.
Getting old has been fun.

 

[angiebaby]

I'm screwed. I can't type for crap...hunt and peck method. My writing just sucks!

Ahhh, so you're a pecker!

 

[TomD]

My wife's a kindergarten teacher...she can decode Sanskrit!

Yeah, but does she whack your knuckles with a ruler and tell you do it again.

 

[monkeyswrench]

Ahhh, so you're a pecker!

Been called that a time or two!

 

[bonesfab]

I should have been a doctor. My shop girl has a board on the office door for who has a the best hand writing. I never make the list for some reason.

 

[j21black]

I took a drafting class in high school pre-cad and ever since then my writing changed to all caps and perfectly aligned and straight etc. it looks pretty, but I’ve almost failed some classes because they “required cursive” and I never bothered to use it.

Had to write a check the other day for $3109.67 - I never write checks and struggled writing out three thousand one hundred nine dollars and 67/XX in cursive....

But hey I got through it just to avoid the 3% card fee

 

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I'm surprised to see someone writing down notes. Thought it was a lost skill. When I worked at the paving company I would always date my note pad and keep full note pads dating back a year in my door panel. Often a question would come up on a job that was done 6 months prior and I could get an answer in 5 minutes. My writing is like what's in the bottom left corner. Right now as I type this there is a note pad on my lap and a pen in my pocket.

 

[warpt71]

Can you cross your 7's so they dont look like 2's, thats about all I cant decipher lol

 

[Ultra...Good]

For what it is worth, most MD'd prescriptions were written in Latin abbreviations. Thats why nobody can understand them. Lawyers? I have never received anything from them that I could not understand. It was always printouts from the courts on the charges that..........end of page.

My writing is bad, but I can read it and that is good enough. Guess who's life ended because of clear writing? Anybody??????

 

[707dog]

good enough for a ol caltrans worker

 

[500bbc]

I'm up to making notes that are legible but can't remember what I'm referencing when I read them.

 

[jetboatperformance]

Mines not Terrible (arthritis) My 92 year old MILs writes beautifully , why BC "back in the day" WE WERE TAUGHT THAT !

 

[napanutt]

I'm surprised to see someone writing down notes. Thought it was a lost skill. When I worked at the paving company I would always date my note pad and keep full note pads dating back a year in my door panel. Often a question would come up on a job that was done 6 months prior and I could get an answer in 5 minutes. My writing is like what's in the bottom left corner. Right now as I type this there is a note pad on my lap and a pen in my pocket.

About the same thing I was doing before I retired. I was a supervisor. I assigned people and vehicles to whatever task was being done on any given day. I had daily dated notes-sloppy notes like above- that I could reference down the road. Usually kept them almost a year too.

 

[napanutt]

good enough for a ol caltrans worker

Damn straight.

 

[Waterjunky]

Mine is a mess. That said, i have dysgraphia so just the fact that any one can read them is saying something.

I have paper and a pen nearby almost always. Just how I roll.

 

[Shlbyntro]

Anyone else this bad?

So I took notes the other day regarding utilities etc for our new home in New Hampshire. Figured I might need some contact info when we’re there but didn’t want to tear the sheet off the pad so I took a screen shot.

I always have wifey transcribe unless she isn’t handy. Obviously she wasn’t handy then.
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No, but I do write in all CAPS and my last name is McVay. I guess thats supposed to make me a serial killer or something

 

[707dog]

I'm surprised to see someone writing down notes. Thought it was a lost skill. When I worked at the paving company I would always date my note pad and keep full note pads dating back a year in my door panel. Often a question would come up on a job that was done 6 months prior and I could get an answer in 5 minutes. My writing is like what's in the bottom left corner. Right now as I type this there is a note pad on my lap and a pen in my pocket.

i made a pen/note pad and sharpie part of my daily tools. passed that down to anyone iv trained through the years. still have notes of my shop/field jobs from 8-10 yrs ago sitting in my top drawer of the tool box.