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The Credit Card Prank By John Hargrave
How crazy would I have to make my signature beforesomeone would actually notice?
In my lifetime, I have made nearly 15,000 credit cardtransactions. I purchase almost everything on plastic. What bugsme about credit card transactions is the signing. Who checks thesignature? Nobody checks the signature.Credit card signatures are a useless mechanism designed tomake you feel safe, like airport security checks. So my questionwas, how crazy would I have to make my signature beforesomeone would actually notice? Here is the actual signature onmy credit card: You can see that I already have the signature of a monkey oncrack. Here is the way it looks when I don't have to sign in aspace one-quarter of an inch high:
I am an arteest, and my signature must reflect that. But howarteestic could I get before someone will notice?
Part II
On the topic of credit card signatures, ZUG reader FronzelNeekburm recently shared this anecdote:I don't sign my credit cards. Once I went to check into ahotel and the girl checked the back of the card and said itwasn't signed. I signed it there in front of her, and shechecked it with the register receipt I also signed in front of her. THANK GOD THEY MATCHED!I spent several weeks seeing how wacky I could make mysignature before someone would pay attention. Again, my regularsignature, which looks like that of a homeless clown:First, I decided to get a little artistic.
Then I decided to get wicked artistic. You have no idea how strange it is to have the teenage counterclerk at Bertucci's watching you scribble fiercely on a piece of paper, as if you wished to purge the evil that is your signature.
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