--- title: Norwegian Teenager Gets McDonald's Receipt Tattooed On Arm description: We can only assume he yelled YOLO right before he got inked canonical: https://time.com/40050/mcdonalds-receipt-tattoo/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-03-27T14:18:29.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:08:14.466Z og:title: This Teenager Got a McDonald's Receipt Tattooed On His Forearm og:description: We can only assume he yelled YOLO right before he got inked og:url: https://time.com/40050/mcdonalds-receipt-tattoo/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Teenager Got a McDonald's Receipt Tattooed On His Forearm twitter:description: We can only assume he yelled YOLO right before he got inked twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Teenager Got a McDonald's Receipt Tattooed On His Forearm by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Mar 27, 2014 2:18 PM CUT by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Mar 27, 2014 2:18 PM CUT > [](https://twitter.com/fox43/status/449016496220426241) We now live in a world where a human being has a McDonald’s receipt tattooed, rather prominently, on his arm. Eighteen-year-old Stian Ytterdahl of Lorenskog, Norway, decided to get the ink because his friends wanted a way to punish him for “being a little too active with the ladies,” according to local media outlet [Romereskes Blad](http://www.rb.no/lokale%5Fnyheter/article7254399.ece "undefined"). We’re not really sure what that means, exactly, or how this tattoo serves as punishment, but you know how teenagers are. Apparently Ytterdahl’s friends gave him the following tattoo options: a drawing of his own butt, a Barbie, or their lunch receipt. We imagine it was a pretty tough call, but the receipt option prevailed. Tattoo parlor Sabelink Tattoo posted the final result on Facebook: “Now I’m a living billboard,” Ytterdahl told the local paper. “But I think all this is just fun. Maybe it won’t be as fun when I’m 50 or 60 years, but it’s my choice.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/40050/mcdonalds-receipt-tattoo/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/40050/mcdonalds-receipt-tattoo/"},"headline":"This Teenager Got a McDonald's Receipt Tattooed On His Forearm","datePublished":"2014-03-27T14:18:29.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:08:14.466Z","description":"We can only assume he yelled YOLO right before he got inked","url":"https://time.com/40050/mcdonalds-receipt-tattoo/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Teens","Bizarre","World","Mcdonald's","norway","tattoos"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/40050/mcdonalds-receipt-tattoo/","name":"This Teenager Got a McDonald's Receipt Tattooed On His Forearm"}}]}] ```