recently a friends college freshman son celebrated his first birthday away from the family nest so she asked friends to birthday card bomb him.
i sent him a card and a Chick Fil A gift card and a few weeks later a card shows up in the mail that i thought was from a kid. sloppy, lettering that looked like something i would expect from a 2nd grader. i open the card up and sure enough, it was all printed out looking ridiculously hideous for a college student.
We paid good money so that he would not know how to do cursive as an adult.
Years ago, one of the marks of an educated person was beautiful penmanship.