{"id":25,"date":"2003-07-10T21:32:10","date_gmt":"2003-07-11T02:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=25"},"modified":"2003-07-10T21:32:10","modified_gmt":"2003-07-11T02:32:10","slug":"signs_of_the_ti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/07\/10\/signs_of_the_ti.html","title":{"rendered":"Signs of the times"},"content":{"rendered":"

As someone was once told, “You have the most pompous signature I’ve ever seen,” and who struggles to fit it inside of those microscopic signature strips on the back of credit cards, I thought this prank<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In my lifetime, I have made nearly 15,000 credit card transactions. I purchase almost everything on plastic. What bugs me about credit card transactions is the signing<\/i>. Who checks the signature? Nobody checks the signature.
\nCredit card signatures are a useless mechanism designed to make you feel safe, like airport security checks. So my question was, how crazy would I have to make my signature before someone would actually notice?<\/i><\/p>\n

Very, very amusing. Though I suspect that part of it may have to do with the places where the guy visited …<\/p>\n

(via SfAD<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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