CURSIVE IS FOR THE BIRDS

So the last blog got me thinking about cursive. I have always had a severe distaste for cursive. Perhaps it is the fact that I have always been terrible at it. In my opinion i never stood a chance, I had terrible handwriting as it was, now your trying to teach me a new scripture in which you don't lift the pen off the ground AKA write even faster and less visible. What really bugs me is how important they made this fucking new scripture seem. Those of you in college or recently graduated may know what im talking about. I remember my teachers saying "you must learn this, because pretty soon it will replace printing" The only thing i think i was dooped into believing more was that if i spent my childhood savings on baseball cards that they would be worth a fortune when im older. Well here I am with a ken griffey junior rookie card and i might as well use it as a fucking coaster.

Anywho back to cursive. All that cursive has done for me in life is 3 things.

1. make it impossible for me to read my grandmothers cards

2. make me look like a fucking jakass on that small section of the SATs. I mean seriously was i the only one who felt like billy madison trying to write the word rizzuto.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4juz4Xn4BtI&feature=PlayList&p=73B7F8D1031C301C&index=0&playnext=1
Thank god Umass Amherst didn't look at that section or I would probably be a fucking greeter at Walmart right now.

3. finally, it makes me feel like a 4 year old everytime i sign my name on something. People I interview with probably think i hold my pen with a clenched fist. My signature is honeslty terrible i still have no idea how to connect the V to the I in Kevin. and how many humps does an N have anyways....


So heres my challange to you, i did this once in college and failed worse than rosie o'donnell in gym class. Without looking try to do the alphabet in both upper and lower case letters. good luck, guarentee you end saying "I hate cursive, and I hate all of you"