Black lettering tattooed vertically down a bare upper back reads "those who matter don't mind", in a typewriter-style font, with a pool behind.

Vertical quote tattooed down the upper back

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A bare upper back shows the words "those who matter don't mind" set in a vertical line along the spine, written in a typewriter-style font. The lettering is solid black with clean edges and even spacing, and the words are stacked from top to bottom down the centre of the back. A pool, a metal ladder and a yellow object sit out of focus in the background.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The Imperial Portable had a sticking e and a habit of striking the m twice, and Ruth Pennock had long since stopped apologising for either. Every morning she fed flimsies and carbon into it at the back of Halloran and Sons, Shipping Agents, in Hull, and typed the day's replies to complaints. Mr Halloran wanted each one to open with regret and close with a discount. Ruth thought regret was for people who had caused the trouble.

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On a wet Thursday in February a letter arrived from a widow in Scarborough whose crate of tinned peaches had gone to the wrong quay. She wrote in a hand that pressed through the paper, and asked only that someone be sorry to her face. Halloran stood over the desk with his watch chain tapping his waistcoat. 'Sorry, Mrs Pennock. Sorry, sorry, sorry.' Ruth rolled a fresh sheet in, looked at the widow's careful ruled margins, and typed instead: those who matter don't mind.

Halloran read it twice. He went red, then slowly less red, then said it was impertinent. He sent it anyway, because the envelope was already stamped and the van was idling in the yard, and he did not care to explain a second letter to a woman who had already been kept waiting.

Three weeks later a parcel came from Scarborough containing a jar of marmalade and a card in the same pressed hand. 'Dear Miss Pennock, I did not mind about the peaches. I minded that nobody answered me. Thank you.' Ruth pinned it above the machine, where the m went on striking twice whenever she typed the word mind.