Pat the grumpy

[mme_hardy]

Look, look, Lucinda! Come and see! It is an enrollment form for a lace-knitting class,  offered at my favorite historic-needlework shop! Let us sign up!

Is the enrollment form a Webstore link? No, it is not a Webstore link.^*
Is it a prefilled Paypal form? No, it is not a prefilled Paypal form.
Is it an editable PDF? No, it is not an editable PDF.
Is it a PDF at all? No, it is not a PDF at all.

What, then, is it?
It is a JPEG. Look, look, a JPEG that one can print out, write upon with a quill pen, and mail to the store.

Has this form fallen into a time warp in 1994 and surfaced mysteriously in 2017? Yes. Yes, it has.
Can it warp me back there? Sadly, no.



^{* Note: Lacis does in fact have a Webstore.}

Comments

[garpu]

They often have some weird lace items you just can't get elsewhere. That having been said, they are distinctly shooting themselves in the foot for not having things such as a basic web form to fill out.

[mme_hardy]

Oh, I couldn't live without them. But they are run by their creator, a very crotchety old man (their newsletters are a trip, with a certain amount of Kids These Days), and it shows.

[garpu]

Oh dear. Some reason I never got on their mailing list. I wasn't thrilled that the Niebling pattern I bought from them was essentially an off-center photocopy. (Legible, but was expecting an actual print.)

[mme_hardy]

That's really annoying. I wouldn't expect actual originals from them, but usually their reproduction books are cleaned up, at least.

[armiphlage]

I just had to sign up for electricity service for a house in a Canadian city of 80,000 people.

I had to print out four non-editable forms, fill them in, scan them, and e-mail them as attachments. Someone then had to manually type in the information. In 2017.