One of my all time pet hates is writing on the backs (or insides) of hands. No matter how desperate you are to write something down or remember something – never, ever, ever write it on your hand. It looks truly terrible & it portrays you as a disorganised individual with no awareness of or concern about your personal appearance.
Nearly as bad as the young man I interviewed for a sales job recently – on leaving our building he stood on top of the mail in our hallway instead of picking it up & handing it to me – he didn’t get the job & he’s probably still wondering why! This incident still makes our team laugh.
Little things really do matter.
I was invigilating an exam once and a first year student held up his hand to ask a question. On the inside of his hand he’d written his cribs. His face when he realised what he’d done, the tears that followed. It meant a compulsory zero in the exam, loss of holidays and, worst of all, a letter home saying he’d been caught cheating in an exam. Tough days for students at http://www.zamorano.edu/
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That’s a great little story, Andy. Reminds me of the Red Dwarf episode where Rimmer covers pretty much his entire body with cribs – except for “a couple of blanks” – his buttocks!
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I saw Joe Meehan writing on his hands on Tuesday at work – he clearly doesn’t read my posterous blog!
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