Traditional style colour tattoo on the top of a foot showing a glass, a grey microphone, a teal flower and two orange banners reading YEAH and SCHENCE.

Banner tattoo with glass and flower on foot

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A colour tattoo on the top of a foot shows a glass shape with a grey microphone-like object inside, a teal flower on the lower left and a dark feather-like form on the right. Two orange banners with pale pink edges and bold black outlines carry the words YEAH and SCHENCE, and a pink flame shape sits behind the glass. Bold outlines and flat colour fills, with light shading on the glass, give a traditional look against the pale skin.

Traditional Other Glass Microphone Flower Banner Flame Feather Lettering

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Sit down, lad, the 4.10 is never on time and I've been talking since Tuesday. You want the story of the glass lamp at Cinder Bottom? Right then. Harold Pym kept the lamp room there, and every morning he polished the round glass globe that hung over the down platform, because the stationmaster swore it was the only thing the commuters trusted to tell them the time.

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One February the globe cracked clean through, and Harold, being stubborn, refused to scrap it. He sealed the crack with pitch, dropped in a spare carbon microphone from the old public address box, and wired it to the signal box so the porters could speak through the glass to the drivers. Nobody believed it would carry a voice. Then on the Thursday, when fog sat thick in the cutting and the guard's whistle died in the cold, the only thing that got through the murk was Harold's voice coming out of that glass, hoarse and cheerful, telling the 4.10 the line was clear.

The stationmaster wanted him sacked for the wiring. Harold just pointed at the signal board and said the lamp had done more work in one fog than the company had in a decade. They let him keep it, and a gas flame burned under it every night after that, so the glass glowed orange for any driver lost in the dark.

When Harold retired, they left the globe hanging. Sometimes now, when the platform is empty and the wind comes up the cutting, the old microphone gives a little hiss, and if you stand very still you can hear a man laughing somewhere inside it. Mind the gap, lad. He's still checking the line.