Rubes by Leigh Rubin for March 13, 2023

Cursed cursive.

They both look like chicken scratches.

Sigh. Chicken scratches. Got it.

And which one is the note fro your doctor?

we’ll cross that road when we get to it

As Ted Nugget once sang ‘Chicken Scratch Fever’.

“Silly Mom, those are your prescriptions!”

I’m studying to be a doctor.

to have nice handwriting takes care and time… teachers are notoriously short on the latter

That does it. You’re going to medical school.

My best friend growing up had indecipherable chicken scratching for handwriting. He grew up to bcome a physician of course

And you’ll need a doctor’s note to be allowed back into school!

Mom failed handwriting too, but she aced henmanship.

He forgot to peck the ’i’s and beak scratch across the ’t’s. Use a bit flare, child.

Chicken scratch is a chicken scratch

Actually happened to my brother. His teacher wrote a note to say that his handwriting needed improvement, and my mother had to take it to the teacher to ask what it said.