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At my local food cart station, I've had to sign for transactions on a sticky 4-inch iPhone screen held in the vendor's hand. She told me most people just drawn
by Fwirt 9y ago
At my local food cart station, I've had to sign for transactions on a sticky 4-inch iPhone screen held in the vendor's hand. She told me most people just drawn an X.
The usefulness of signatures as a means of verification reminds me of the scene from The Fugitive where Kimble saves the kid's life by scribbling an illegible "doctor's" signature on a medical order:
https://youtu.be/nxotPpVYVcc?t=95 https://youtu.be/nxotPpVYVcc?t=95
- teilo 9y agoFor important documents, I have a neat and legible signature. But for CCs, I've been doing this for a long time now. Just a wiggly line, whether on screen or on paper. No one's ever challenged it.
- fenwick67 9y agoAn X is a legal signature. Signatures are really only useful as an indicator that you agreed to something in entirety, it clears up legal grey areas. So, when a judge asks "did you agree to this?", you can't say "I agreed to X not Y". Instead they can say "is this your signature?" and the intent is clear. It's really just a symbol of total agreement.