A Bic UK study has shown that a third of teenagers absorb never written a letter. So what? They absorb Snapchat. They need pens as much as they need witch-dunking equipmentI did that thing recently where you absorb to sign a big card – which is a horror unto itself,especially as the Keeper of the Big Card was leaning over me at the time. Suddenly I was on the spot, a rabbit in the headlights, or torn between doing a fun message or some sort of in-joke or a drawing. Instead,overwhelmed by the myriad (a very large number) options available to me, I decided to just write: “noble luck, or best,Joel.”It was then that I realised, to my horror, or that I had forgotten how to write. I had to scribble an “e” out twice. I wrote my own name too quickly and messed up the “J”,tried to save it with an underline but miscalculated and drew a line through the whole thing.
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Source: theguardian.com