What I hated was spending three years learning to print--having to use those little letter guides, and the paper with the two solid lines and the dashed line in the middle. Then, when I was *finally* getting used to that--*WHAMMO*--cursive writing. Forget everything you learned about printing, here's a *new* way to write! Yay! Thanks! Why didn't you just teach me this in the FIRST place if this was what you were going to demand I do eventually anyway?

So then it was Mandatory Cursive Writing for several years, until we were finally judged adult enough to choose ourselves. At which point I immediately went back to printing, mostly out of spite. I don't think I've written anything in cursive for about 5 or 6 years. I try not to print anything either--that's why I learned to TYPE, so I wouldn't *have* to write things out long-hand.

-- Dave