Colin kept delaying deliveries because he took so long signing the little screen.
His granddaughter helped him practise a quick signature on paper.
After twenty attempts, she said he’d finally got it right.
Then she tore off the page and put it in her school bag….
Colin didn’t trust delivery screens.
He tried to write his full name. The pen slipped, the screen went dark, and the driver asked whether a line would do.
My signature is not a line, Colin said.
The driver looked at it.
It is on here.
His granddaughter, Emma, offered to help him practise.
She drew a narrow box on a sheet of paper.
Keep inside that.
Colin wrote carefully. His surname left the box before he did.
Emma made another box.
Try just your initials.
He said initials looked careless.
She said standing in the rain for five minutes looked cold.
By the twentieth attempt, Colin could make a neat little signature without lifting his hand.
Emma praised him, tore off the page and put it in her bag.
What do you need it for? he asked.
School.
Is it a handwriting project?
Not exactly.
He asked her to show him the other side.
It was a permission form for a trip.
You should have told me what I was signing, he said.
Emma pointed to the narrow box.
I did. Twenty times you wrote outside the bit that said Parent or Grandparent.
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