> "I won't notarize this because my ethics do not allow it." I heard those words uttered at my bank one day, and I became furious. I'd been using, in good fait

> "I won't notarize this because my ethics do not allow it." I heard those words uttered at my bank one day, and I became furious. I'd been using, in good faith, a licensed notary at a shipping store, and it turns out he'd been notarizing any damn thing I wanted without regard for proper form. I had been extremely naive about notary publics, and when I ran into one with ethics, it cast the sketchy dude into sharp contrast. Thankfully I've had no legal repercussions due to the invalidity of illegally notarized documents in the past, and I haven't needed to notarize something in a while since then.