Sign Here

While at the gym earlier this week, somebody mentioned to me that I signed my name very consistently. I thanked them for what I took as a compliment, but wondered if this was just a random comment because I simply assume that most people sign their name the exact same way all of the time.

Since I have to sign out after every session, my name was repeated maybe eleven or twelve times in a nice little column. I looked closer and they were about the same height and same width each and every time. It got me wondering when was the last time I intentionally changed the way I sign my name.

Until I graduated from college. I used to write my name pretty small. Once I had to start signing a weekly timecard, I increased the font size, imitating the big and fancy signatures of the important architects around me. I thought it would make me seem important too. Seriously, I did.

The only other major change happened back in high school. Until my junior year, I wrote the D in David with a loop across the top, like a baseball cap. Then one day, I received a card from a girl I liked. She wrote my name with a loop across the bottom. I was so taken with her it and thought it was so cool, like an idiot, I practiced the style until it became part of my signature. I still write my D that way.