Black block lettering reading must be this tall to ride, with a red left-pointing arrow between the lines, a lettering tattoo on the side of the ribs.

Must be this tall to ride sign on ribs

Lettering · Ribs · Mixed · Photo

The tattoo shows the words MUST BE THIS TALL TO RIDE in bold black block capitals, with a solid red arrow pointing left between the two lines of text. The lettering and arrow have clean outlines and flat fills, and the text is centred on a pale, lightly lit section of skin. The composition is close and straight-on, showing the design across the side of the torso.

Lettering Ribs Text Arrow Sign

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Right, sit down, the lot of you, Mrs Pargeter's kettle is still warm and nobody's going to die of a biscuit. You all remember the Harvest Fair on the field behind the old Methodist hall, the year the dodgems caught fire. Gary Tully swore it was the candyfloss. It was the generator, and it was Mr Bassett's, and he never once admitted it.

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What I remember is the big board at the gate of the Wurlitzer ride, painted cream with black letters you could read from the bus stop. MUST BE THIS TALL TO RIDE, and under it a red arrow pointing left, at the sky, at the church spire, at nothing much. Every kid in the parish had a go at standing on tiptoe against that post. Our Denise swore she was an inch taller than she was. Stan Fisher stood on a crate and got told off by a man with one eye.

Now, Joanne Tilly, you were the one who got on. You were eleven and the sign said you were too short, and you went under the rope anyway, because the lad with the cigarette was too busy watching the girls to check. You spent that whole evening spinning with your hair full of cotton wool, and when you came off you looked nine feet tall.

So here's my toast, and I'll sit down after. To the arrow, which never once pointed where we wanted, and never once stopped the ones who meant it. Drink up, the last bus leaves at ten.