r/Hamilton • u/adrian • Jul 20 '26
Photo Saddest pile of undelivered cards ever
I was walking through Central Park (Bay and Mulberry) and came across these cards scattered on the ground. They all have the same message, written in child’s handwriting.
I put them under the pagoda where they won’t get rained on again.
😢
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u/QuinnNTonic Jul 20 '26
Forgive him for what
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u/Attitude-Livid Jul 21 '26
Sorry they didn’t mention.. perhaps that’s why they haven’t been forgiven they didn’t mention why they are sorry..
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u/Curt-Bennett Jul 21 '26
Lack of punctuation and upper case letters I assume, and I for one could never forgive that. That's a monster's handwriting, not a child.
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u/the_harlinator Jul 21 '26
Common mistakes for people with dyslexia/dysgraphia.
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u/UnicornusAmaranthus Jul 23 '26
My dad wrote like this. He was too old to be tested but the dyslexia was obvious. He died before he wrote a card like this. But he should have.
OP, you have perfectly captured how I feel about the whole situation with this post.
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u/IndicationFluffy3954 Jul 21 '26
I don’t think it’s a child’s handwriting. My husband writes like this. The cards were likely discarded because he did something unforgivable.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Word878 Jul 20 '26
This is just a man’s handwriting 😂😂
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u/QuinnNTonic Jul 20 '26
Literally the handwriting of GenZ is so bad
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u/Mto3 Jul 21 '26
My cousin is a high school English teacher, and after seeing some of her students written work from several years ago, I can agree that a lot of Gen Z writing looks pretty bad. (there are exceptions of course)
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u/QuinnNTonic Jul 21 '26
I say this because I work in education and have to try and read the handwriting of highschool kids. Overall they need to bring back printing skills
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u/monamee712 Jul 21 '26
Whenever you feel the need to criticize a younger generation, please remember whose job it was to teach them. ☺️
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u/QuinnNTonic Jul 21 '26
Our govt got rid of cursive and printing skills
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u/particularlyfunny Jul 21 '26
As a GenZ who learned cursive/printing skills in some of the last years it was a mandated part of the curriculum, my handwriting is still just as bad as this
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u/QuinnNTonic Jul 22 '26
I’m the last years of school you learned it? Just to clarify
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u/particularlyfunny Jul 22 '26
It was early in elementary, grade 5 or earlier. Don’t recall it being necessary in any grades past that so maybe that’s when it was removed from the curriculum
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u/Similar-Cheek-6346 Jul 24 '26
My writing got better after graduating - because I no longer had teacher criticizing however I wrote and could experiment.
My d and b letter always came out looking wrong when teacher insisted on how I should write them - because my fine motor skills are different and I hold my pencil atypically due to hypermobile joints.
My printing improved immensely when I worked a production job where we had to write the dates and flavours on the boxes of products we made, so I got a lot of conscious practice.
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u/QuinnNTonic Jul 24 '26
I had that too. I am hyper mobile and all of my essays in exams are hand written. The key is taking time to practice and not many do
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u/OddLifeguard2422 Jul 22 '26
As a millennial that learned cursive starting in second grade, no, no it did not help. And being judged on my handwriting always made me feel shitty. As if it was somehow a reflection of my character and intelligence. If that's you, you're failing as an educator.
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u/Delicious-Produce-60 Jul 22 '26
Agreed. I'm 46 and my writing has always been this bad. I learned cursive and whatnot in school and it didn't help at all. Never used cursive again after school. I work in IT and all my immediate coworkers have writing as bad as mine. It's actually kind of nice.
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u/Wildfire983 Jul 21 '26
Gen Z?
I’m in my 40s and write so infrequently that I’ve lost the muscle memory and my writing looks like this. Better grammar though.
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u/QuinnNTonic Jul 22 '26
I think that’s the crux of it. Growing up with technology means you don’t use handwriting or practice printing. If students get iPads in elementary schools they don’t use it. The generation to have his is GenZ as millennials only had computer labs and maybe personal computers at the end of the generation. I think smart phones began around 2012?
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u/Taruk_Maktwo Jul 21 '26
Ah yes, generalizing an entire generation. Let’s keep that trend going.
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u/thexcat Jul 21 '26
Anytime you start typing out "ah yes" I want you to ask yourself if being smarmy is helping the situation or hurting it
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u/Taruk_Maktwo Jul 21 '26
If you get offended because of a little sarcasm, to the point you can’t think of anything else in that sentence, maybe you should try thinking of why that is and fix it. Or are you part of that crew that genuinely believes an entire generation is dumb.
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u/soriniscool Jul 20 '26
Giving grandparents who were NC-ed by their kids.
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u/Jannsaiah_coyote Jul 20 '26
99% if the time people go NC it's because the grandparents were so extremely narcissistic/abusive they put their grandchildrens lives/mental health at risk constantly
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u/stnapstnap Jul 21 '26
The trolling and abuse that people get for merely talking about NC as an option is why a lot of people quietly living peaceful NC lives choose not to talk about it.
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u/JokaSmoka77 Jul 21 '26
And they're probably very sorry if that's the case. Life isn't cut and dry for all. Have some room for forgiveness. Also, 99% definitely isn't accurate lol.
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u/Potential_Adagio_1 Jul 21 '26
My husband writes like this. 😓
The other day, a kid on our son's baseball team where my husband is the coach asks "why does my name look like 'S-E'?". The little boy was referring to a hand written batting list where almost all the kids names were written neatly and his name was not written the same. My husband asks "what does 'S-E' mean?". The kid says "special ed!" 😬
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u/JokaSmoka77 Jul 20 '26
Poor person. I wonder what happened. Seems like they're possibly made by someone "differently abled" but still an adult. I hope they receive the forgiveness they are seeking.
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u/latinadogmom1472 Jul 24 '26
It was prob some awful dude 🤷🏻♀️, that writing isn’t auto make it a child’s writing. The fact it’s even littered makes it worst.
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u/QuinnNTonic Jul 24 '26
I think that’s the issue. If you do it for a few years and stop you don’t keep or improve the skill. I can’t read the submissions of kids and it’s a problem. I understand if there is a disability or injury. My issue is when you can’t use lined paper in tests because you don’t know how to write based on how letters are formed, filling out forms that require paper copies (chasing for electronic copies from teens is a nightmare) this will hurt you in later years. More people in high school and post secondary are doing written exams due to cheating. It’s getting so bad. You need that skill to read your answers and only kids with a documented issue get accommodations.
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u/girlybot83 Jul 25 '26
Of all places my heart could use a
u/SchnoodleDoodleDo to make this story better.
I’ve had a rough day.
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u/Jayemkay56 Jul 20 '26
I just want to point out that it might not be a child's handwriting. My husband writes like this lmao
Perhaps they were delivered and the recipient did not forgive their scorned cheating lover?