"I eyeballed the Wyse terminal in the office behind her. "I thought you said you had Microsoft Word running on that?" I asked. "My handwriting's not very good ... mind if I use it?"
I'm just wondering, do you, fellow typists, suffer from a similar atrophy of handwriting skills? I was never any good to begin with, even when they used to drill us pretty hard about penmanship back in grade school. Let's just say things have only gone downhill from there.
I'm left-handed, write somewhat crabbily at the best of times, and was suffering somewhat from mild RSI at the time. Half an hour isn't very long; I can type a lot faster than I can hand-write, so to make even a token stab at the task I needed a keyboard.
I'm just startled that nobody else ever asked the obvious question ...
"I eyeballed the Wyse terminal in the office behind her. "I thought you said you had Microsoft Word running on that?" I asked. "My handwriting's not very good ... mind if I use it?"
I'm just wondering, do you, fellow typists, suffer from a similar atrophy of handwriting skills? I was never any good to begin with, even when they used to drill us pretty hard about penmanship back in grade school. Let's just say things have only gone downhill from there.