Did you ever forge your mum’s or dad’s signature?

I certainly did but just the once to get out of a PE class which I hated. It was netball and really not my thing ! Haha

My late grandma, was always busy with her many church LFT en and running the family business. She once asked her oldest son to write a letter to religious school, on her behalf, apologising for her youngest son’s absence, being unwell.

The next evening she was called in by the head master, and shown the letter:

‘Sammy can’t attend as he has sh*t himself.

Signed M. S………’

Yes we did, at school in our little books to say that we'd completed our homework. These were checked from time to time by the form teacher.

We had a very artistic girl in the class who would do it for you as a favour if you were stuck.

Much later on we 'fessed up' to Mum and understandably, she wasn't best pleased.

No, I would never even have thought about it! My mother would have killed me (probably literally!). She was super strict and I was terrified of her. My daughter, on the other hand, could forge my signature on school forms very well, and had no reservations about telling me! Lol! Now HER daughter (13 going on 25), is doing the same thing, much to my daughter's dismay .

Certainly not, if I had been caught doing that it would certainly changed my life, it would not have been forgotten, there would always have been that doubt.

My daughter forged my signature on a cheque once. She was a teenager and got a taxi home but had no money. I was asleep so she wrote a cheque for the driver. To be honest I wasn't too annoyed. She confessed the next day and I would have paid if I was awake.

No never
I never had to.

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Ashamed to say but yes, when I was ? 13 ish ? back in the 50s when you could go to the bank for cash - I ‘borrowed’ my mothers cheque book and forged her signature (very well) and took it to the bank to get some money… I succeeded but somehow Mum found out …I never did it again!!

At the end of each month in the 60s my bank, The Midland, used to send all the chèques I had signed, back to me to keep.

I had a student I suspected of forging mum's signature. At Parents' Evening I presented her with the 'forged' notes and asked her to confirm it was her signature. I have never seen colour drain so quickly from a student's face. He never tried it again, at least for me.

No never. I would have been terrified of the consequences if I had been found out .

Yes. My artist dad was dying of cancer, had lost the use of his painting hand and had a big unfinished commission of a steam train. He asked the person who commissioned it if they would mind if I completed the painting. They agreed and I sat beside him and finished it while he looked on. Then, with everyone's agreement, I forged his signature on the painting. The customer was delighted and so was my dad.

Never had too, I was married at 16 so there was never an occasion to do it

YES
Neither parent had been very happy at the schools they were sent to and hated the family examination of school reports at the end of term. My father . in particular ,was chastised for not succeding in the languages he was 5 years behind in, my grandfather having been admonished by his business friends for not paying for private education when he could well afford to . He therefore sent my father to compete with boys who had been learning Latin and French from age 7

I was very bright and loved school but both my parents refused to look at my( mostly) very good end of term reports
It made me a bit sad but was fine until the school insisted upon a pull-off tab from the report being signed by a parent and checked on the first day of the next term

I don't think dad ever read one of my reports but mum encouraged me to append her signature where I thought fit

I did End of problem

My dad had a stamp with his signature, his secretary used it to "sign" documents. (He dictated, she typed, he gave her orders on what to sign with the stamp and put in the mail asap, and what to leave on his desk for him to sign. I véry young learned how to use that stamp 😅

I could never have forged my Dad’s signature because the headmaster would instantly have recognised it ………. he was my father. Couldn’t get away with anything but to be fair if I ever got in trouble at school he never mentioned it at home , probably giggled about it with my Mum later.

My sister ( not living at home at the time wanted to get married.This was in the 60s when you needed permission.
My sister sent me the papers and I sighted them.

I signed my soon to be ex husband’s signature. I wanted to be sterilised, went to the necessary private clinic ( nhs wouldn’t do it) He asked what my marital status was so I told him the truth, separated.
He said as we weren’t divorced he needed my husbands signature.
Well that wasn’t going to happen so I took the papers and did the necessary.

Yes, once or twice to get out of doing PE. I hated PE because I was always last to be picked for a team, bullied incessantly and school days were torture for me.

'Fraid so, forged DM's signature regularly on school reports, nobody ever asked to see a report so never got found out.

I was too scared to try. My Mum always told us Be sure your sin's will find you out. That was a worse threat than PE or Gym. I hated both.

No I didn't have to, my parents would write notes for me if they thought it was right.
We all changed the marks on our school reports though. We had a collection of pens and biros and as we travelled 8 miles on a bus we all used to change the minus to plus or give ourselves a plus if it was a straight letter. It didn't seem wrong then, everyone did it. How we weren't caught out at Parents night I will never know.
I always wrote justifiable notes for my DD's and I was a teacherSchool sports mainly .

It would have crossed neither my dad's mind, nor mine!

no but my grandaughter always wrote her own notes for school one day her mum wrote it and school got intouch to say that dgd had written a note and they weren't accepting it was of a parent , my daughters handwriting is atrocious

My sister forged our mum's signature twice, on a school note to get us out of something. But never again. The guilt was too much

I did at secondary school - even though my dad was a policeman - I forged his signature regularly so I didn’t have to go to the school dentist. I was terrified of the dentist - still am 😳😂. Mum always wrote school letters so I know they couldn’t compare. I was never caught. 😁

Oh yes, frequently! I started doing it when he sent me to pay in the takings from our shop, he sometimes used to forget to sign the paying in slip. I'd been practicing it from being a youngster (I loved his signature), so just naturally signed it. Many times after that I would sign parental permission slips from school for myself and siblings "on his behalf"! I never thought twice about it and he would have approved...