Over lunch today, a child minder told me the following story. A man had interviewed her for a job. He introduced her to his young daughter, and asked her to teach her how to write a signature. They practiced signatures on separate sheets. The man called her up afterwards, and said she had got the job. Then he presented her with a contract -- signed by herself. But how could he have her signature? She searched her mind. She said: "I didn't sign this!" But it was her signature. She took the job, but she was outraged -- she didn't want to see the contract, or have anything to do with it. OSBSERVATION: The moral of the story is: don't sign any blank sheet. And I myself, if an agreement is important, have always had attorneys confirm when this was not finalised -- so that there are no stray sheets doing the rounds which someone might claim are real.
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