Matching Don't Blink and Don't Panic wrist tattoos
Lettering · Forearm · Mixed · Photo
Two clenched fists are pressed together, each wrist carrying a short line of tattooed lettering. The left wrist reads DON'T BLINK in blue and the right reads DON'T PANIC in red-orange. The letters are solid with simple bold forms and no visible shading, set against pale skin on a dark background.
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Dear Priya, I found the reunion programme folded in quarters in the glovebox, still smelling of the gym's floor polish. Mr Tandy's name is misspelt on the back page, which would have made us both howl at fifteen. I should have laughed at the reunion too, instead of hiding behind the buffet table when Gemma asked whether we were still the pair who ran the bake sale fund into the ground.
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Do you remember the summer we were sixteen and talked the man on Sawmill Lane into doing two small lines for the price of one? We had the words ready on a scrap of paper: DON'T BLINK for you, because you never trusted the lunch hall clock, and DON'T PANIC for me, because I panicked about everything. We swore that whoever flinched first would buy the chips at break for a whole year. You never flinched. Tonight, standing by the coat rack, I realised I had been the one flinching all along.
So I drove up. Not to panic, I promise. I am going back to that studio on Saturday to have the old lines looked at, because the man says they will need touching up after all these years. Would you come with me and sit in the chair beside mine? You can pick the colour this time. I will drive, and you can tell me the story of the clock again, the one where you kept it stopped on purpose.
Your move, Priya. Don't blink.
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