Brad buys a house

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• InvalidName2@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  For a solid few years, the signature on my driver’s license did not match the signature that I use to sign things nor did it match my normal handwriting.

  This is because the small town, fascist, dick cheese of a police officer who was handling my renewal decided he didn’t like my signature. So, he told me I had to sign the thing with a legible (to him) signature. After redoing the signature multiple times and having him reject it each time, I finally signed it like I was trying out for the Olympic handwriting team. He accepted that one.

  Like what even is the point of this exercise besides just being a giant festering asshole? Fortunately the signature mismatch was never an issue because it’s such and unimportant and useless detail that almost nobody cares when they check your license.

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  • BanMe@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah that’s insane, you are legally allowed to make any mark and it’s a signature. But cops are above the law, so

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    • tiramichu@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Plus, the whole point of a signature is that it’s easily reproducible by you, but not by other people.

      Fast and fluid in a way that feels good to your hand is therefore the best signature, whereas something written slowly and precisely is easier to copy.

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  • Brian_hayson@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Wow, that’s ridiculous. Forcing someone to change their own signature defeats the whole purpose of having one. Good thing nobody actually cares about signature matching in practice it sounds like the officer was just on a power trip

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• Zier@fedia.io ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Go and update your DL with your legal signature.
  Call the mortgage company and thank them for the free house that some joker signed with cat heads.

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  • Archer@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Most mortgages specifically have a rider that says they can make you do more paperwork as needed

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    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Not if you cross your fingers and say “no take-backsies”

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    that’s what the notary was for

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• ethaver@kbin.earth ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Every millennial ever making their first email:

  (mine is a fandom RP name from when I was 13)

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  • Spezi@feddit.org ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    When my company is hiring, I usually have to check the CVs from the ones working in my field. I’m absolutely shocked about how many people are using email adresses like “cutebunny93@xyz.com”. The most shocking one was some racial slur where some letters where exchanged through numbers. Needless to say we didn’t go further with that candidate.

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    • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      CuteBunny93 has been using email for 20 years, isn’t that a point in their favor?

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  • _stranger_@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    max cringe incoming:

    Mine was the name I gave to my favorite deck of Magic: The Gathering cards. Ironically, that deck would probably be worth more than my house if I still had it.

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    • ethaver@kbin.earth ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      "first they came for the socialists" and all, yes.

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  • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I still use mine. Nearly 30 years as prettybunnys

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  • DragonOracleIX@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Mine was a variation of my xbox gamertag.

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  • drasglaf@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    My first email was netwesker15

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  • shneancy@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    mine is a fandom name too, misspelled, of course

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• _stranger_@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  My agent accidentally misspelled my last name on paperwork at some point and when she realized the mistake it sent her into a blind panic We got it sorted but years later I still get junk mail with that name on it.

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• aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “How do I type this alphanumerically?”

  “Meow meow meow.”

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  • jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I used to do data integration work for Chipotle. One day, our Workday (HR system) integration broke out of the blue and we spent hours troubleshooting.

    Eventually we discovered someone named Katherine applied for a position and signed her name with a 🐱 emoji, which broke EVERYTHING.

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  • howrar@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    U+1F431 U+1F431 U+1F431

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• dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  More like: Brad discovers the American equivalent of a Hanko, along with all the pain that creates.

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• OmegaLemmy@discuss.online ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I have this issue. They let 15 year olds sign their own name. My current signature does not match my old one, so I have to re-memorise my old one or change it to be new. Fuck me, why let 15 year olds do this shit?

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  • bier@feddit.nl ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    My 5 year old wrote a backwards F as his signature for his passport. I really hope they will let him pick whatever he wants when he gets a new one in 5 years

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      they will

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  • ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I also came up with my signature when I was a teenager. I didn’t understand signatures back then… I recently changed it, but not on my official docs, such as my passport.

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• Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  How do modern kids even develop a signature? They used to teach cursive and it’s based on that, but cursive isn’t used anymore

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  • cheloxin@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Signatures aren’t as important as people think they are. You can sign with literally anything and no one will care. The only time it may come up is if there’s some kind of dispute and then someone asks you “is this your signature” and you say yes. Crisis over.

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    • lemmyknow@lemmy.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      there’s some kind of dispute and then someone asks you “is this your signature” and you say yes. Crisis over.

      “(…)by signing this document, you are also acknowledging that Apple may sew your mouth to the butthole of another iTunes user. Apple and its subsidiaries may also, if necessary, sew yet another person’s mouth onto your butthole, making you a being that shares one gastral tract.”

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    • Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They are if you vote by mail. All ballots have the signature matched to the one on your driver’s license.

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    • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I mean it just needs to be unique. Otherwise what’s stopping someone else from pretending to be you (if they got control of some other credentials) or weaseling out of something you did in fact sign for.

      To quote Mr burns “you can’t all sign with an x”.

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    • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      More like “is this your signature?”

      “Uh, looks like the same ink pen I use, so … Maybe?”

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  • rarsamx@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Your signature is your mark. Uniquely identifying. It doesn’t need to be your name.

    I originally signed with name and last name plus a squiggle. I got tired of that and many years ago I changed it to my 4 letter first name barely legible. Way better more consistent than the variance writing my full name.

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  • ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Mine starts off cursive then devolves into a squiggly line by the end.

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    • howrar@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Write name, but sloppily. My brain will always be lazy in the same way, so the signature just ends up looking approximately the same every time. So basically, lots of squigglies too, but I’ll get the ascenders and descenders.

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• toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I have e-signed most of the paperwork I’ve signed in my life, but I did sign in ink for my first house. For that one, everyone encouraged me to be as casual as possible about my signature because they knew it would inevitably just get sloppier as we progressed through the paperwork.

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  • Brian_hayson@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That makes sense! E-signatures definitely make life easier, but I get why the house closing still called for ink. And yeah, after that stack of documents, no one’s signature looks fancy by the end it’s more about surviving the paperwork marathon than style

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• smh@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Mine is my first name in neat Gregg Shorthand, then squiggle squiggle.

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• RustyShackleford@lemmy.zip ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I feel like in 2025 in SoCal that this post couldn’t be real. Got my home for $600k and a decade later it’s worth $1.6m. Could I be rich simply by moving to Washington?

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  • phdepressed@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, moving to lower cost of living will make you relatively rich. It’s a reason people sometimes retire to rural (lower tax-red) areas. However, If you’re still working the usual problem is that the jobs also pay less and “amenities” are also less. Fewer good restaurants, less option for entertainment, worse schools, etc.

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There’s also the problem of living in a dysfunctional conservative shit hole

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    • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Old people without kids in school move to cheap areas and then fight to keep the taxes low so they don’t have to pay for services they don’t want. Nothing worse than being gentrified by the old

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  • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I didn’t see OP mention what he paid.

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• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This is amazing!

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  • slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And so real too.

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• jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Don’t you just e-sign everything now? I did for my last two times going back over 10 years IIRC.

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  • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Giving an offer and the pre-closing papers are all DocuSign.

    Closing is all done IRL at the title company, with physical papers.

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    • Brian_hayson@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah, that seems to be the standard now DocuSign for everything leading up, then the big stack of papers in person at closing. Feels like a final boss level of paperwork

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  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    depends on location and title company.

    my last two homes were physical signatures over like 200 pages of documents.

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