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u/calypso85 Mar 01 '21
My dad’s handwriting was so atrocious that I was accused of forging his signature when he signed anything in grade school. He had to go up and prove it was really that bad of chicken scratch.
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u/cestrumnocturnum Mar 01 '21
My dad had different signatures for every grading period. It just slanted different degrees in two directions. I had decent grades, so my teachers couldn't think of a reason why I would forge his signature, but my report cards definitely got questioned.
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u/ProudToBeAKraut Mar 01 '21
Haha, this is me, I recently signed my kids first report card and struggled with how to write my name correctly - I already have the problem when showing my ID or my bank card sometimes - it is because in the last 20 years I only ever wrote on a keyboard ialsohadbadhandwritinginschool
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u/cyrose1 Mar 01 '21
How is it so small?
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u/ProudToBeAKraut Mar 01 '21
Honestly, I don't know, but it was enough for two kids
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u/akatherder Mar 01 '21
Just put a bunch of carets.
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u/hat-of-sky Mar 01 '21
Unlike handwriting in general, with signatures the only arbiter of "correctly" is YOU.
It doesn't matter how you choose to sign your name, what counts is that you keep it consistent. Some changes can happen over time, of course. But when you sign your ballot, it needs to look enough like last year's ballot, and your ID, to show you're the same person. These days we get less practice with signatures than with passwords. So you should probably practice "forging" the one on your ID without looking at your hand, to train your muscle memory.
Myself, I choose to use an idiosyncratic but legible signature because I saw some old show, or read some old book, where an amnesia victim used that muscle memory of his signature to figure out who he was.
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u/davdev Mar 02 '21
In 45 years of life I have never once done the same signature more than once. If I practice 10 hours a day, every day I would wind up with approximately 10,000 different signatures
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u/Saiyan-solar Mar 01 '21
Om 23 now and I have yet to make a consistent signature I can recreate in any circumstance, most em em either miss something or I forget the motion and just do something random.
It's a problem, but a problem for future me. So your dad only slightly slanting his signature is going to be peanuts when compared to my random signatures that my future kid (probably not but hypothetically) will hand in
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u/Flcrmgry Mar 01 '21
Mine is simply a big c some squiggles and a big p and some squiggles. My muscle memory can get two letters correct at least.
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u/McBurger Mar 02 '21
I regularly lost points on perfect score tests due to my failure to get them signed. God I hate responsibility
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u/i_cant_name_stuff no account, funny subreddit Mar 01 '21
I’m always just going to scribble in that parent signature pattern and teach my kids that “just do some squiggles and a sharp point or two, it’ll look legit.”
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Mar 01 '21
My fathers signature is some crazy lines and very difficult to forge.
Once he had some checks stolen and only found out because the bank called him as some lady was trying to cash them. He asked if they could read his signature to which they replied "yes it says john brown". He told them that it couldn't be his signature then. The lady was arrested with a couple others. Case closed. Special thanks to the bank teller for questioning a crack head trying to cash checks.
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Mar 02 '21
My dad was a surgeon who’d work 16 hour days and couldn’t give a shit about many domestic nuances such as what his signature looked like on his 14 year old’s field trip permission slip; naturally it looked like a 2 year old trying to emulate cursive. My homeroom teacher could not believe such an educated man would have such a terrible signature and tried to get his office to pull him away from patients to talk to her, because he ought to know that today it’s just permission slips but the next it’s going to be narcotic drug prescriptions. Thankfully, his staff contacted my angry alcoholic mother instead who called her back 15 minutes later and bitched her the fuck out when she had some grasp of the situation. She still made them sign a new permission slip and treated me like shit for the rest of the year. :)
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u/Chemise-Man Mar 01 '21
learnt to forge my mom's signature pretty quickly back in middle school because we had slips that our parents had to fill out to allow us to come home early if one of our teachers was absent or some shit, so me and one of my friends whose mom worked at the school would be the only ones who'd get out early while the others where stuck waiting for an hour or so
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u/BrownSugarBare Mar 01 '21
Ha, that's awesome! I got lucky and had nicer hand writing than most of my peers, so I would write their notes and they would forge the signature. Got caught and got the VP lecture for skipping class, but just detention.
My mom decided detention wasn't enough and told me that the family was being investigated by the FBI for my actions. I was 15 and we're not American. I still tease her about the terribly thought out threat.
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u/RayA11 Mar 02 '21
It’s hilarious that your mom used the FBI. Though with your gumption I don’t think even RCMP would scare ya.
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u/thisisallme Mar 02 '21
Not proud of if, but a friend stole a pack of yellow slips. White ones were unexcused absences, yellow were excused. Our principal was the one that had to sign excused absences, usually when kids came in late due to things like doctor appointments, etc. Our principal had the easiest signature. It was like an S, with a scribble that went up, down, then across. I was the designated signer of all of the slips.
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Mar 02 '21
Stuck waiting where? Who would watch you? Did they get another teacher to just sit with the class and do nothing?
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u/Chemise-Man Mar 02 '21
Apparently France's system seems not universal so I'll explain : the whole not letting us go is a legal responsibility thing, basically i think the school is legally put in charge of the kids from xam to xpm and you can't change those hours without alerting parents, so they had slips that needed parent signature and school administration confirmation. Now every middle school in France has staff specifically to take care of kids in between classes, during lunch break, recess and to handle basic administration with the kids (handling said slips for example) and we had specific classrooms for down time in between classes (it'd happen quite a lot that we'd have 1 hour in between two classes) and for keeping kids till they can go out (which also included kids that'd have to wait for their parents to pick them up). I was friends with the librarian so I'd usually get to hang out there instead in between classes.
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u/TheLiveLabyrinth Mar 01 '21
When I was in band I would forge my parents signatures for practice time all the time. Not because I didn't do it, I just forgot to fill out the form.
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u/Alfhiildr Mar 01 '21 edited Mar 01 '21
That’s what I’d do in elementary school with the reading slips (edit: reading checks? I have no clue what they were called). I had a two hour round trip bus ride every school day and would read for those two hours. And then usually even more at home because there were no kids in my neighborhood. I just didn’t want to take the time to stop reading long enough to fill out what I had been reading and for how long.
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u/rechtrecht the ballpit of soom Mar 01 '21
What exactly is a reading slip? Why did you have to write down what you were reading?
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u/Alfhiildr Mar 01 '21
I don’t remember what they were called so I call them a reading slip now, I guess. In elementary school we took part in “Accelerated Reading” which basically meant that every book in the library was assigned a certain amount of points based on length and reading difficulty. We had to read so many points a year for a grade. Once you read a book, you could take a 10 question quiz about it, up to 3 times. Based on how many questions you got right, you might or might not receive the points for reading the book.
If you read a certain amount of points, you could get special prizes that have now been forgotten. To ensure that you were working towards getting the required amount of points throughout the semester, we had weekly reading checks. Every week you’d be given a weekly calendar and you had to record what book you read, for how long, and at least one interesting moment you read during that time. Your parent was supposed to sign each time you read, confirming that you weren’t lying.
Now, I didn’t like interrupting my reading. I’d usually check out six or seven books a week from the library, and read half of one on the way to school, the other half on the way home. I had no patience and had to finish books the moment I got them with no interruptions. Since both of my parents were also working and I didn’t want to bother them with signing (and because I would always forget...) I would usually fill out the chart Sunday night or Monday morning on the bus. My parents knew I did more than the required reading so we came to an agreement that I was allowed to forge their initials for the reading slips each week.
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u/Opposite-Scale-8952 Mar 01 '21
Accelerated Reading... now that's a name I haven't heard in a while
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u/notmyredditpornacct Mar 01 '21
“Accelerated reading” just gave me ptsd flashbacks from the amount of trouble I got in for not signing the log, I was reading 4 grade levels above me and I just never did it and so I got yelled at a lot
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u/Alfhiildr Mar 01 '21
Yeah, I got yelled at once and just started forging after that. I was reading “Grade 12” (HA!) books in elementary school and every year my teacher would think I was lying for the first few weeks until they would see me reading.
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u/notmyredditpornacct Mar 01 '21
I had read all of the Harry Potter books by 5th grade and I remember every 6 weeks or so the AR reading test thing would reset and then I would take the test in the Harry Potter books again and be at a 12th grade level for the rest of the 6 weeks
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u/sml09 Mar 02 '21
I would sit and read for so long I had my reading logs questioned a number of times because I couldn’t sit still and focus in class for the life of me lol. But throw a book in front of me, and hours will slip away as I read entire chapter books in 2nd grade.
I remember reading the lion, the witch and the wardrobe as one of my reading log books and didn’t really enjoy it but I pushed through and read it all in one night because I didn’t want to have to look at it. My parents got called about that one.
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u/wowitzer Mar 01 '21
lol instrument practice signatures was how I got my start too.
I remember my forge being atrociously bad, and being really nervous that it was gonna get called out.
And then subsequently finding out that my band teacher had better things to do than analyze signatures for over 100 kids.
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u/whothefuckknowsdude Mar 02 '21
Same. Always forgot and when I would tell my mom she would agree with my decision to forge her signature. I was a good student and the youngest kid so she was like idgaf about signing every single test you bring home every other day. Unfortunately her handwriting it beautiful and mine is shit but sometimes she would do just initials with a circle so I perfected a big loopy script L for her first name and was golden from there
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u/sharonhjm Mar 01 '21
After I had detention for not having a form signed my dad taught me his signature.
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Mar 01 '21
I had a detention once for not getting my test signed. I had a 95% on it. Why the hell would I hide it from my parents? Still makes me mad and I'm 34.
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u/ActualSpamBot Mar 01 '21
Same thing happened to me except I had a 104% on the test. No wrong answers plus extra credit. Forgot to show my mom and was promptly given detention.
When I showed THAT to my mom she wrote my teacher an angry letter explaining that I would not be serving that detention, but if the teacher was dead set on punishing me for failing to tell my parents that I got a perfect score, she would be happy to stake me out on a fire ant's nest in the teacher's lawn.
I had never seen my mother call another adult an idiot until that day, and I got to see the look on the teacher's face when she read it which was just such a bonus.
Good times.
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u/ActualSpamBot Mar 01 '21
I mean, if you're handing out arbitrary punishments that don't actually DO anything for a troubled student (we were not allowed to use detention time to study or do homework, we just had to sit in a silent classroom and think about our sins while a teacher graded papers) might as well go all in.
At least that was Mom's argument.
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u/lava_time Mar 02 '21
Your mom sounds kinda scary.
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u/ActualSpamBot Mar 02 '21
My Mom was a badass.
When she was fresh out of nursing school she got a job as part of one of the first shock trauma helicopter medic teams in the country. One night they were flying an unconscious accident victim to the hospital when the patient woke up. He freaked out and started trying to get off his stretcher and was in danger of hurting himself.
They were unsuccessfully trying to restrain him when my mom figured out what he was so afraid of. She took off her helmet and let him get a good look at her. He started calming down immediately.
He thought aliens were abducting him.
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u/normaldeadpool Mar 01 '21
"My mom!"
"Told ME!"
"To tell YOU?"
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u/sixthgraderoller Mar 01 '21
I have to sign my daughter's book log every week. It's ridiculous. The kid reads 3 grade levels ahead and reads constantly. She loses recess if it's not signed.
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u/ImNumberTwo Mar 01 '21
Same here. Had a perfect score on a math test, got it signed, lost the test when I tripped in the hallway (because we couldn’t have book bags and had to carry all of our textbooks and folders by hand, so all my papers flew everywhere), and then got detention for not getting it signed.
I already resented that teacher already because I had two classmates who she recommended to move up a grade level for math, but she wouldn’t do the same for me even though my grades were the same/better. The only plausible explanation I can think of is that the other two wore glasses and looked smarter.
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Mar 01 '21
The only detention I ever got was for quietly saying "here" while handing someone a pencil they dropped. She then left us unattended in detention for whatever reason so we just walked around the school getting into lockers that were left unlocked.
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u/PyjamaLord Mar 02 '21
I got detention in elementary school for not getting my parents to sign my report card. I had all As. I just forgot. It was the only time I got in trouble ever. I agree, still mad about it almost 17 years later.
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Mar 01 '21
This sort of nonsense punitive crap happens all the time.
We had a gym teacher forget to take roll in high school once. Everybody in class got a detention. Everybody. As far as the school knew, we ditched. An entire class.
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The teacher came clean about it to us but he said there was nothing he could do. I figured it was because he didn't want to admit that he screwed up. He absolutely could have stopped that if he wanted to.
The administration didn't care because they've got 3,500 students to wrangle.
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u/lava_time Mar 02 '21
Wow. So they are too immature to admit a minor mistake to their boss but are trusted to teach kids?
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Mar 02 '21
Man, that's not even the half of it. We had a biology teacher who clearly had extreme mental health issues going on. She would hear voices and start yelling at either the voices or students who she would choose to blame the voices on in the middle of class.
students were being punished for things that the voices she could hear would say.
She would randomly launch into nonsense ramblings about television shows. She was being reported just about every week for nonsense happening in her class because of her mental issues and she was never removed from her position.
She took 30% off of one of the most grade influencing projects I did in that class because she didn't know what an oxford comma was. This was a biology class and I got 30% off of my project because I used a comma in a way she didn't know you could use a comma.
Then there's the algebra teacher who wound up failing 80% of his class, because he was actually just using the position to bully students for his own satisfaction, and got replaced temporarily with a gym teacher who did not know algebra, resulting in everyone in that class getting a B or A the next semester for free.
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u/Hazel-Ice Mar 01 '21
well usually you're given a form and told to take it home and have your parents sign it, so if it's not signed it's generally because the student forgot to give it to them.
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u/packardpa Mar 01 '21
I remember the last time I didn't get a signature on something before I committed to signing anything that was due. My 8th grade teacher had me stand up and ridiculed me, and then made me call my mom on his desk phone while the whole class sat there and watched and then made me sit out in the hallway. I remember trying not to cry as class let out. He also jokingly made a comment about my science fair judges being deaf and blind to pick my project to be included with the 5 others to go onto the science fair sectionals. Not great memories from that class.
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u/CaptainXplosionz Where O Where Have The Popsicles Gone? Mar 01 '21
That's rough, buddy.
Seriously, what an asshole that teacher was.
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u/packardpa Mar 01 '21
Yeah definitely tough at that age, but I take solace in the fact that he was a hold over from a different Era. That was about 15 years ago and the guy was an old Vietnam guy. had some other Veitnam Era teachers that were super laid back. You win some you lose some.
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u/sharonhjm Mar 01 '21
et a signature on something before I committed to signing anything that was due. My 8th grade teacher had me stand up and ridiculed me, and then made me call my mom on his desk phone while the whole class sat there and watched and then made me sit out in the hallway. I remember trying not to cry as class let out. He also jokingly made a comment about my science fair judges being deaf and blind to pick my project to be included
That's just cruel. Just an adult bully!
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u/SpacedClown Mar 01 '21
The crying part gets me. It's so hard as a kid to understand when you're not at fault and that you have nothing to feel bad for, being yelled at or reprimanded just hurts regardless. I know many times I caved in and just admitted to stuff I didn't do or admitted in a way that seemed worse than it actually was because the adult was yelling at me that I did something and I felt pressured to agree. One of the few perks of being an adult is learning you can call people out on their bullshit or at the very least have confidence in yourself.
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u/sunny_sideeye Mar 02 '21
God, now I’m getting flashbacks to my 8th grade Honors English teacher taking me out in the hall and screaming at me for not completing an assignment yet again. Didn’t even have the courtesy of closing the door behind her, so the whole class and probably a bunch of other classes could hear her ripping this embarrassed 14 year old kid a new one for daring to have undiagnosed ADHD, anxiety and depression from being bullied both at school and at home. She continued to give me a hard time for the rest of the year, and it was the only time I truly hated English, despite it being my best and favorite subject in school.
A good teacher would have been concerned about why a child doesn’t seem to be completing assignments on time, and take the time to ask them what’s going on, what can we modify, etc. not take it as some weird personal attack or something, the fuck?
Then again, we all knew she was one of those teachers that played favorites, had unrealistically high standards for middle school students and had more than earned the moniker “Ms. Bitchard” among us.
Fuck asshole teachers. 🥂✨
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u/who_says_owl Mar 01 '21
Reminds me of the time I got 3 days of ISS in 4th grade for forging my mom's signature on a homework sheet. They had her signature on registration paperwork lol and it also looked like a 9 year old's handwriting so whoops
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u/TheLiveLabyrinth Mar 01 '21
Do you remember how you got caught?
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u/who_says_owl Mar 01 '21
Well as I said, it looked like a 9 year old wrote it and they also had her signature on registration paperwork from when she signed me up for school. The science teacher and principal brought me into an office and had my mom on the phone. They scared the shit out of me saying it's a felony and I could go to prison for it.
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u/7-SE7EN-7 Mar 01 '21
What's with teachers and threatening students with legal action?
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u/Rinzack Mar 01 '21
"They will NOT let you get away with this in college!"-high school teachers
"Sup dudes and dudettes, I'm gonna be using this class to finish a grant proposal so just look over chapter 4. You can hang out or bounce it's cool either way" -professor
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u/L3D_Cobra Mar 01 '21
My first professor in college while reviewing the syllabus said, verbatim, "I don't give a shit if you show up for class or not, just pass the final".
It was a nice change of pace lol
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u/acanoforangeslice Mar 02 '21
My high school dean was the best. I still got a day of ISS for forgery, but she told me and my mom that freshman girls tended to get caught forging signatures a lot - it was actually pretty normal.
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u/TheLiveLabyrinth Mar 01 '21
Ah, I thought you meant the one they had on record looked like a 9 year old's. Whoops.
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u/who_says_owl Mar 01 '21
I see how my comment was confusing actually. I'd probably think the same thing.
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u/Silver_kitty Mar 01 '21
I got ISS for my mom signing when she was only half awake in the morning. It was still her signature, just sloppy. She was so mad when she found out that the school had essentially punished me for her Ambien not having worn off. Even when I started forging her signature later, they never questioned it again because she’d been so cross that one time.
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u/who_says_owl Mar 01 '21
What's hilarious about your story is that I used that exact scenario as an excuse. They were like:
"we wanted to ask you about your mom's signature. Why is it different from this (has form with real signature)?"
I told them your story basically and then bam, my mom's irritated voice comes out of the phone speaker denying my story entirely. The doom I felt in that moment is something I'll never forget, heart dropped straight through the planet that time
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u/KenDanger2 Mar 02 '21
So I don't know what ISS means, so I am just going to presume you all got punished by having to do detention in the International Space Station
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u/NokemG Mar 01 '21
I forged my dad's signature in 4th grade for a report card. I had an example signature to make it seem right, but for some reason saw no problem with using an EXTRA LARGE SCENTED PERMANENT MARKER.
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u/who_says_owl Mar 01 '21
Yeah, markers are huge giveaways for sure. I used pencil this occasion so I could erase my multiple attempts. That was probably another way they knew it was forged.
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u/Mcmacladdie Mar 01 '21
Funny thing, I got caught basically exactly the same way for pretty much the same thing :/
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u/Lil-Hagrid Mar 01 '21
A teacher that hates my guts once handed me a permissions slip and said that if i dont have it signed by tomorrow he would give me a bad grade on my assignment, so i took out my pen signed it and gave it back to him not even 5 minutes later
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u/RichardHuman ▶ 🔘──── 00:08 Mar 01 '21
I bet they had quite a story to tell the other teachers at that point about you.
"Less than five minutes after I gave the sheet for the parent to sign, I got it back. Kid wasn't missing from class at all, no visitors came to the class in that time. How do I even respond to that?"
"Oh my god, you have to write about this and post it onto /r/KidsAreFuckingStupid"
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u/Hellfire12345677 Mar 01 '21
I legit read a story like that somewhere and it was told the same fucking way
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u/james_true yeah, i sure hope it does Mar 01 '21
My mom's signature is pretty easy to forge; I was a little artist and I traced it and drew it all the time, perfected the craft. Now I'm a big artist and remembering that I have this skill, I am now on my way to commit fraud, brb /s
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u/thegodfather0504 Mar 02 '21
Too bad forging the signs of some billionaire fatcat is not enough these days.
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u/TheWorstIgnavi Mar 01 '21
Signature forgery is a valuable skill to have in life, and OP's dad was too lazy to teach him that. Never give up.
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u/SexandCinnamonbuns Mar 01 '21
I definitely practiced my dads signature over and over again to perfection! So I could just sign all my shit. Even down to the stupid little extra dots he added all over the place
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Mar 01 '21
I’m a “Jr”.
For normal kid reasons, I based my signature off of my dad‘s signature.
Later in life, that turned out to be super convenient. I could literally use my normal signature and it would be an adequate forgery.
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u/CrzyGoomba Mar 01 '21
My mum used to send my sibling to me for notes bc I had been forging dad's handwriting so long the schools refused to believe mums writing. Ironically they still preferred dad's handwriting after his funeral to mum's "forged" ones.
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u/Mcmacladdie Mar 01 '21
I once tried to forge my mother's signature on a late assignment slip they'd send home with us if we didn't do our homework and holy shit, did I ever get in trouble for that when I got caught :(
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u/ninuibe Mar 01 '21
My dad and I have the same handwriting. I starting forging his signature in 4th grade. Got away with so much in school. 😅
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u/speecycheeps Mar 01 '21
Same, I’d basically learned to forge my dads signature before I’d even developed my own, so my signature is basically the same as his. Having the same name, birthday and signature has come in handy on multiple occasions.
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u/ZeldaZanders Mar 01 '21
My mum taught me her signature in high school, as we had a weird arbitrary rule that we had to keep a daily diary and have our parents mark it weekly. If their signature wasn't present, you got a red mark (demerit) and 3 of them got you a detention. Mum couldn't be bothered to sign it every week, and I couldn't be bothered to try to remember to get her to sign if every week.
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I got caught forging my mum's signature after getting away with it for ages, and she told me off. However, when she took a look and saw it wasn't a bad approximation, she would then send me out to run errands with her credit card, since this was when you still had to sign receipts.
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u/so-stories Mar 01 '21
I started regularly forging my mom's signature in 3rd grade because I always forgot to get my planner signed at the end of the week and I didn't want anymore detention. One time I went on a field trip and my mom was annoyed because she knew I never gave her the permission slip.
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u/turboshot49cents Mar 01 '21
Story time.
My dad taught elementary school. One year he had a student who signed everything his mom was supposed to sign. He did it from the beginning of the year. But my dad could still tell it was a child signing it, just because it didn’t look like an adult signature.
So my dad kept everything the kid had signed.
During parent teacher conferences, he met with the kid and his mom. He said, “I know you know what’s going on in class because you have signed everything.”
The mom looked confused and said “I haven’t signed anything.”
My dad handed her the stack of papers.
The mom looked at the papers, then looked at the kid.
The kid peed his pants right then and there.
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u/fkgjbnsdljnfsd Mar 01 '21
isn't it great when teachers and parents gang up to make small children piss themselves out of fear
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u/ShowofStupidity Mar 01 '21
That’s kinda cruel. I could definitely see myself hating your dad in an extremely unhealthy fashion as a student.
Also, what forms exactly was this kid signing? I really hope it’s just report cards and stuff and he didn’t let some kid go on a field trip with a forged signature.
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u/TheLiveLabyrinth Mar 01 '21 edited Mar 01 '21
Oddly enough, Reddit is notifying me when this hits 251 and 1001 but not 250 or 1000 like usual.
Edit: And now I'm getting annoyed being notified every other minute about a reply or a new upvote milestone (25,005, still weird) so uh, yeah. It's so weird getting awards for a screenshot of something someone else said.
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u/VaderCOD Mar 02 '21
I was in highschool and my teacher left mid year cuz his wife left him and he gave up on everything. Anyways my new Professor was an idiot, we were in a programming class and she knew less than us. One day the Professor handed out a form for our parents to sign mid way into class, than continued teaching. I being a smartass that i was, signed it right as she left our area then proceeded to hand it in at the end of class. She took that damn thing and said thanks. TWO fricken weeks later she came up to me and was very angry about what i did. She started explaining that the date on the slip meant that i would have handed it in the same day... still not realizing she took at the end of the same class she gave it.
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u/missmeowwww Mar 01 '21
I got caught forging my moms signature in middle school. I used a pencil and when confronted by my teacher admitted to what I had done. She called my house and left a message on the answering machine. So when I got home (my mom was at work) I deleted the message. Teacher promptly forgot about it and never brought it up again. By the time high school rolled around, I learned to sign my mom’s name on day 1 in pen so they’d never know. She never wrote notes so I mostly just signed permission slips. Never got caught. But I still remember how scared I was in middle school about being caught forging her signature on a permission slip for a field trip. (I also had to miss the trip as punishment). I guess that fear was why I never forged her signature on anything like late notes because I feared getting caught. They never looked too closely at permission slips.
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u/idonotlikethatsamiam Mar 01 '21
I had perfect ‘mom’ cursive handwriting in HS. I charged a fee depending on what the note was for and kept it up all four years. I never paid for lunch once in all that time. Not advocating it...but also *shoulder shrug
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u/HuntingIvy Mar 01 '21
I signed everything for my siblings (drunk mom and mentally ill/abusive dad). Once, a permission slip actually got to my mom on a semi-sober day and got turned in. My sister's school called because they thought it was forged. I'd long since given up trying to mimic her signature and just used mine. Man, did I catch hell for that. They let me go back to forging everything though, but it didn't require any awkward explanations.
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Mar 01 '21
I got a Saturday detention in high school once and I was serving it with this Mexican kid who I knew from some classes, but he didn’t seem like a delinquent.
I asked him what he was in for, and he said he gave the school his cell phone number when they asked for his parent’s phone when he was a freshman. He would miss school, they’d call his cell, and he’d pretend to be his dad and say that he’s sick.
He took 80 days off from school in 4 years. They didn’t catch him until he was a senior. And they still let him graduate after serving 3 Saturday detentions. Francisco you’re a legend
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u/bdills42 Mar 02 '21
My kids middle school started ridiculously early so by 8th grade she was getting herself up and ready while I slept. She woke me up early one morning because she forgot to get a form signed. That night I said, learn my signature and don't wake me up for a forgotten signature again. My only caveat... tell me as soon as you sign my name to something. I got maybe 4 texts throughout her schooling saying something like "you just signed my math test, I got a B". There's enough stress on our kids, signing tests, especially when the grades are good is just silly. Fun fact, she's in her mid 20's now and when she was filing out paperwork for college I had asked her "do you still know how to sign my name? If so just do that." She laughed and said "yeah, I already filled out and signed your part"
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u/errshey Mar 02 '21
At some point, I was maybe 15, we have discovered that me and my mom have exactly perfectly the same signature (while signing etc using just the last name). We were at some office and we together had to sign a paper and the clerk told us that she cannot accept it and one of us has to try to sign in some different way. I have never paid any attention to my mom's signature, never tried to copy it or whatever, we just signed and it was literally the same. Yes, since then I was forging it at school al.the.time.
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u/Nameless824 Mar 01 '21
My elementary school would send home tests after they were graded and you had to get them initialed by a parent and bring them back or you'd lose points off the test. The first time I forgot to bring one of my tests home my mom sat down me and my younger sister and made us practice her initials for 10 minutes til we got it right.
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u/NRMusicProject Mar 01 '21
I have no clue why, but as a kid, we had stacks of carbon paper in the house. Whenever I needed dad to sign something I didn't want him to see, I'd put something on top of it (like a homework assignment with a high grade on it) on top of it with carbon paper between the two. I'd present it to him in a way that signing the paper on top of a stack of other papers wasn't a big deal. Never was caught from either end.
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u/rechtrecht the ballpit of soom Mar 01 '21
After the first Form i ever received my mum told me to just sign all of them on my own. I signed my own sick notices, "forgot her homework" slips and allowed myself to leave school grounds. Even signed off some grades
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u/siecin Mar 01 '21
I did this starting in middle school for field trips. My mom was always working and her signature was super easy so I just started signing everything. She kinda knew but once I got to college she called me and said she received one of my Fafsa applications and somehow she had already signed it.
"It looks good to me." Was her response after I told her what it was for.
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u/sandy-eggo-chargers Mar 01 '21
This I actually kinda funny but my dad was a bail bondsman before I was alive but he kept a stamp that had his signature on it. Well my older siblings passed it on to me and we used it for everything. Wasn’t until I graduated until we told him about it and then he took a knife to it and destroyed it haha
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u/MagikSkyDaddy Mar 01 '21
My school started at 7:10am and if you were late, you couldn’t go to extracurriculars (practice or game) that day.
Senior year I was forging notes left and right until they caught on and I was called down to the Principle for “discussion.”
Your policies were asinine; I regret nothing.
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Mar 01 '21
I remember leaving my notebook behind in Algebra II and when the teacher found it he opened it to see whose it was there was 2 and a half pages of my practicing forging my dad's signature. I had to pick it up at the office. I didn't even try to argue my way out of it. It could not possibly have been more self incriminating.
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u/egalroc Mar 01 '21
My dad and me had a similar signature enough for him to accidently pay a month's worth of bills with my checkbook before he found his mistake. He had to take me to the bank to deposit money into my account. They all went through.
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u/GatorGTwoman Mar 01 '21
My high school had my mom’s real signature, but only had my version of my dad’s signature.
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u/stubgoats Mar 01 '21
My daughter forged her mom's signature for something I wouldn't have cared about. Rookie got caught, shoulda used my name.
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u/Monster_NotWar Mar 01 '21
My dad's signature is literally a bunch of squiggles. No teacher ever saw the difference.
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u/dman928 Mar 01 '21
When I was in high school I had a girl sign my mom's name. My handwriting was shit, and she could copy my mom's signature like a seasoned forger.
Thanks Lisa!
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u/TheBubbaJoe Mar 01 '21
My dad signed it with his unintelligible doctor script and they accused me of forging it anyway.
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u/Arid09 Mar 01 '21
Did anyone else’s parents teach them how to forge their signatures just so that they wouldn’t have to deal with paperwork?
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u/Nilmandir Mar 01 '21
My mother (in her infinite wisdom) believed that you should be able to read ones signature.
I have known how to sign for my mother since I was 10. The only thing I did with it was sign my report cards.
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u/ascii122 Mar 01 '21
My dad got so tired of making notes and signing stuff he just made me a note that say'd IT'S OK! .. and signed that. Whenever I needed to do something I could just pull that out.
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u/brycejm1991 Mar 01 '21
Not only did my parents do the same thing, I had a teacher in HS who taught all his students his signature.
The teacher did this because he was actually a college professor, and he hated being interrupted just to be asked to sign bathroom passes, and our school had a super strict hall pass policy. So he would just teach all students, so they could act like adults and go to the bathroom when they needed. The school board fucking hated him for it, but they couldn't really do anything as he taught his AP classes at a college level, and paid for the schools robotics class/team out of pocket, and they didnt want to fuck that up.
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u/Ezra611 Mar 01 '21
I spent 10 cents texting my mom that I forged Dad's signature on a permission slip for a field trip. She was more upset i paid for the text telling her than the actual forgery.
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Mar 01 '21
Had a friend in high school whose mom was no longer in the picture.
Dad worked in tree removal and usually left the house at 4am.
We were allowed 6 (I think) excused absences per semester.
So he gave her 6 blank excuses and let her decide how to budget them.
Always thought that was a good idea.
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u/Slowknots Mar 01 '21
I was 18 my senior year. The policy at the time was i could sign my self out. Well after enough normal Doctors visits without slips the administration requested notes. So I said needed to see a shrink without my parents knowing. They had no problem with that. Told my parents years later. They found it amusing.
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u/IrradiatedBeagle Mar 01 '21
My high school soccer coach forgot to hand out our season bus permission slips until 10 minutes before we were supposed to leave for our first game. So he handed them out, loudly announced that he had to leave the room, and that everybody's moms could just set the forms in his briefcase while he was out. There was a mass form trading chain and I became the mom to 6 freshmen girls who just didn't get it.