Quote Originally Posted by mickmyrna View Post

... this is probably because when you write your signature for your British passport, you have to sign in a small *box - i find it very difficult to write my normal signature in such a small area so the signature , well my slightly ostentatious one anyway.....!
... , Myrna ... I do also ... for the very same reason!

On one particular occasion, for instance, I remember being specifically requested by a Post Office clerkess to scrap the form I'd already completed, then fill in another, simply because the customary "squiggle" I normally use underneath my signature happened to overlap the *said box by 'little' more than a centimetre.