Black and grey realism tattoo of fanned banknotes held in a hand, with green script lettering reading Get Money, on an upper arm.

Fanned banknotes and Get Money script on an arm

Realism · Upper arm · Mixed · Photo

A fan of banknotes, each marked with 100, is held in a hand and rendered in black and grey shading with soft smoky background tones. Green script lettering reading Get Money sits across the lower part of the design. The tattoo fills the frame on an upper arm, with the skin edges visible at the sides.

Realism Lettering Upper arm Banknote Hand Money Script text

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Dear Tomasz, the bureau at Sallow Bridge still smells of toner and the mint tea Mirela boils on the hotplate, though she has gone to her sister's in Varna and left me her stool, her stamp and a drawer full of rubber bands. Yesterday a lorry driver slapped a fan of hundred-euro notes onto the counter as if he were dealing patience. I told him that trick only works on people who want to be dazzled. He laughed, pushed the notes towards me with one finger, and waited for the rate.

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You remember Father did the same at the ferry gate, cards of money spread wide so the customs men could see how much he carried and stop asking. He used to say the spread matters more than the sum. I counted that driver's notes flat, one bill at a time, and handed him back his change in a neat brick with the rubber band still on. The fan was his idea of money. The brick was mine, and it was the one he went away with.

Last Thursday a boy of about nineteen came in with a wad from a cousin's shop and a question about changing it before the weekend. His hands were steady, but the notes were soft and creased, as if they had lived in a pocket for a month. When I asked where the money came from, he only shrugged and said his whole plan was in two words. I asked him to write them on the back of my receipt pad. He printed GET MONEY in careful capitals and then underlined it twice, the way a child does when proud of a spelling.

I have pinned that receipt above the till. Every morning I count the first note twice, the way Father taught me, and every morning the fan on the counter is still only a hand of cards until somebody needs something that cannot be bought with it. Write when you can. Tell me what the rate is in Leeds.