A rant of sorts

[rsc]

I am in charge of updating the mailing list for the Lavender Country & Folk Dancers, which includes adding the addresses that we harvest at our dances. I assume that I''m not the only one who thinks it should be bloody obvious that, in writing an address that somebody else is going to have to transcribe, there would be an advantage to writing it in such a way that said person will have no trouble figuring out what it says. Indeed, the latest version of the mailing list form (which I created), says, very clearly:

*****Please print legibly*****

Nonetheless, I have an address that I can't read unambiguously. And, of course, it's one of those clever names that has no relation to the name of the person whose address it is, and indeed appears to make no sense whatever (although I assume it means something to its owner), so it's difficult to even make an educated guess. This happens a lot.

So, I find myself asking, as so often: What are people thinking?

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[thaaang.livejournal.com]

I do filing at work on Fridays (gets me off the phones for an hour), and there's one or two people there who write so lightly that their writing doesn't photocopy. So if I can find out from the HR guy (or based on the order of the copies compared with the originals, if I have the originals handy) whose mailboxes the copies should go into, all they're getting is a blank form with the HR guy's signature on it. I swear someday I'm just going to tack one of 'em up on a bulletin board with a "please press firmly." note on it or something, but that'd probably be deemed bitchy.