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Received an electricity bill last night, and decided to authorize Hong Kong Electric to direct debit from my bank account in future, so that I won’t forget paying the bills. So I filled out a form and went to a branch of my bank to submit it. Only to be told by the girl at the counter that my signature looks different to the one on their file.

But your signature doesn’t look right, sir.
That’s not possible, I signed the same way in years.
Your given name part looks correct, but your surname part looks different; it should be wider. Here,, handing me a piece of paper, sign once more here.
Here.
Still looks different… your surname part begins from the left not from the right…
Huh? It’s supposed to be an ‘S’, how could the stroke start from the left?
(Puzzled) Nevermind… I’ll lodge the form for you anyway, and see what they’ll make of it.
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The amusing part is, after all of that I found out I could make the same application online via e-banking by filling out a simple HTML form. Which means they trust a short alphanumeric password more than my signature. Hmm.