--- 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](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Mar 27, 2014 2:18 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Mar 27, 2014 2:18 PM UTC > [](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). 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"}}]}] ```