Community Chat

[SaRina]

Wouldn't it be funny if a mod came along and removed your OP because it was "inappropriate"?  :-D

I can't help you -- I only know Alphahand.

[mercyMe]

"Back to work at the bank" ....

although for the 2nd word, the stroke is long like a "D" not "T", but

regardless, makes little sense unless the writer worked at a bank.

Let us know what you find out!

[tends2dogs]

Thanks to all!!  Yes it does make sense......in a way.  My mom (the one who wrote this) began working at the bank when she was sixteen.  She retired (forced out) when she was 70.  She took a brief time out when my sister and I were teenagers.  She felt it was more important to keep an eye on girls with boyfriends LOL.  Anyway, the note is dated 1968.  I would have been 15.  I wonder if this is when she returned to the bank???  It is fuzzy to my sister and I, and alas, my mom is no longer with us......dad either .  No one to ask anymore.

BTW my parents lived to be 87 and 84, respectively.  I MISS them everyday and there is SO much I still want to ask and tell them.

Thanks again!

(I thought for sure it said "I love you")

[mwane]

"Back to work at the bank."

[tends2dogs]

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@SaRina wrote:

Wouldn't it be funny if a mod came along and removed your OP because it was "inappropriate"?  :-D

I can't help you -- I only know Alphahand.

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@SaRina  At first I hesitated to post this for that reason LOL, but I couldn't imagine my mom doing that.

[tansy]

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@SaRina wrote:

Wouldn't it be funny if a mod came along and removed your OP because it was "inappropriate"?  :-D

I can't help you -- I only know Alphahand.

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That's the first thing that I thought of, too.

I taught myself Speed Writing.  That's when my handwriting became sloppy looking.

[tends2dogs]

One other thing about shorthand.  My mom would write shorthand with her finger if we were sitting down, say at a table, while we were talking.  She would write grocery lists in shorthand, too.  I always thought it was pretty and wished I would have learned it.

Do you do that, too, or have you let it go?

[Krimpette]

My shorthand days are long behind me, sadly.  However, after reading what posters said who can still read shorthand, I agree with the interpretations of "back to work at the bank".  I'm really impressed with those who knew!!!

[SeattleShopper1]

A   l-o-o-o ng   time for most/ many of us.

Still does not make sense, but could it be:

back due note at the bank

??

have trouble with the third word because  the first stroke  of the third word could be an "s"  or a "stray or extra" stroke.

Appears the writer might have been making notes just for themselves as a reminder.

But admit  -- I know nothing  And me memory is not that great.

[Preds]

I knew Gregg over forty years ago and came across my "Diary" for that year.  Have no clue what I wrote in that darn thing and I'm not letting anyone "read" it for me.  LOL

I'm also a lefty and shorthand is hard for lefties.  Speed writing was much easier.  Problem is, can't read that mess anymore either.