I had a history teacher in high school who failed three weeks worth of my assignments because my printing was too messy (it was somewhat messy, I don't know that it was "drop a whole letter grade in the class" messy) but he "gave me the opportunity" to re-write all of it more legibly so I once spent a completely miserable weekend copying my own homework and forcing myself how to learn to print in block capitals because it is MUCH more legible than when I switch between cases. It caused my hand to actually cramp. It pulled the nail on my forefinger away from the nailbed to hand-write that much homework in two days.
The next year I had a different history teacher fail my first assignment because it was in all caps and so I wasn't properly capitalizing place names, so I spent all of my chemistry classes for the next month practicing writing in beautiful, flowing, minuscule, completely perfect and ridiculously difficult to read cursive. And then I took some of my dad's ultra-fine-point pens and wrote all of my homework for that class in the most perfect, infuriating handwriting that I could for the rest of the year. I would write with my paper turned at a 45 degree angle just so that it would be more carefully italicized and harder to read.
Long story short, I am now very good at writing legibly in multiple hands, but it is a trick I only pull out for people I like and everybody else gets fuck you cursive.





























