I Can’t Read Your Hand Writing

When I teach Mah Jongg I have people sign in on my little Mah Jongg book with their name and email address. The one thing I ask, “Please write your email address so I can read it.”

So many people have lost all ability to hand write. Sometimes they are just shaky writers. They can’t help that as it comes with age. Sadly, those are usually the people who had beautiful hand writing at one point.

Some people write certain letters in a stylized way. That is a disaster. I have a terrible time telling the difference in u or v, or a or o, or i or l. The worst is when someone has a zero in their email address and they don’t put a slash through it so I think it is an O. O and 0 look the same.

If you have a dot in your email address you need to leave plenty of space between the letter that precedes it and the letter that proceeds it and make the DOT BIG.

Don’t even get me started on the @ sign. That symbol sometimes takes on a life of its own. If your email ends in gmail.com I can usually figure out what you wrote right before Gmail is an @, but if you have some off brand email all bets are off.

So people, please practice writing your email in block letters. No cursive, leave spaces between and reread it and make sure it is clear. I apologize if you were waiting for an email from me and it never came. I tried. I tried multiple ways. IT just kept bouncing back. If your email is not your name, then you have to really make sure it is legible. Even if it is your name, then make sure they both are readable.