Autographs
I once published a book and at the launch people asked me to sign their copies. Hadn't really thought about my signature before that. I wanted gravitas or at least elegance as I flourished my pen. What my first initial and three letter last name did instead was to look like a pen smudge on a perfectly clean fly sheet - cramped, short and unnecessary. Indeed, the signing line after that was as small as my signature.

Autograph anxiety under performance pressure.
(boozehound is drinking your bar dry, Sat 20 Aug 2011, 11:49, Reply)