HALF OF US HAVE LOUSY HANDWRITING

A new survey examining handwriting usage in both professional and personal circumstances has found that one in two people have been told by others that their handwriting is hard to read. The survey of 2,000 Americans, from the Bic pen company, also found:
– 45 percent of Americans struggle to read their own handwriting.
– Seven in 10 people said they struggle to read a co-worker’s handwriting.
– A third of respondents would hate to have to write on a board in front of colleagues .
– The most common items to be misread are shopping lists, notes to colleagues, birthday cards, and thank you notes.
– 86 percent of people still write things down on paper as the main way of staying organized.
* There’s more, but I can’t make out what it says.
* Up yours, Action Memo phone app.
* Cursive, spoiled again!
* I don’t think of my handwriting as unreadable. I think of it as encrypted.
* I never knew I could write Chinese until I started having to use those electronic-signature-with-your-finger thingies.