So...

So, I'm pretty vain about my handwriting, not obnoxiously so, but I have nice handwriting, and many people have commented on it over the years. It's partly a product of growing up in the French education system, which is much stricter about these things than the Anglophone systems are, and partly of completing three quarters of a design degree in which a disproportionate amount of time was spent doing writing drills, but mostly because I enjoy it.So.The six people in my unit at work have, generally speaking, average to awful handwriting, which is pretty much standard these days, apart from one, whose writing looks like a second grader's first attempts at cursive. I didn't really think anything of it (beyond 'yikes', anyway) until I handed this woman a form to sign one day this week, and realised that her writing was that bad because she had these enormous fake gel overlays on her fingernails, which meant that she could barely hold a goddamn pen.And my split second revelation went like this: I would happily endure nails that were nothing more than mangled, bloody stumps, as long as my handwriting looked good. Apparently it's more important to me that some random stranger in Accounts who might one day come across an expense form I filled out think 'Huh, nice writing' to themselves, while I gross everyone out with my shredded finger tips, than that I come across as a borderline illiterate when I sign something.I also suspect that this is not a surprise to anyone who knows me.