Counterfeit

Rally Jacksonville had its kickoff event downtown two weeks ago and since we had such a fun time last year we went-even though we don't have a 4 yr old and that's who the program is geared for. Elise is the only child in our family that truly enjoys "characters". John-Thomas dove under a table at the Friendly's restaurant when he saw Tommy from Rugrats comming down the isle...Disney wasn't much better. He didn't know those characters were just pretend. Elise also loves face painting something else the boys have never really gotten into. Though one time they did get creative and ask for an eyeball like Count Olaf from Series of Unfortunate Events. While Emmet and Elise and I were in the park John-Thomas went inside the library to get some books for a report. To get the Benjamen Franklin books he had to pay some library fines so he came out and got a twenty from me and went back in. A few minutes later Josh calls me from home to tell me that I needed to get inside the library right away...security had John-Thomas. Someone had given me a counterfeit $20 and the library checks all their bills for counterfeits. We had to wait in the lobby until a police officer could show up and take my statement. The police officer thought the $20 was real, it had a watermark and a security thread but when one of those special markers was applied it didn't disappear like it does on authentic bills. We haven't gone out and gotten our own little bill marker yet but I would like to....don't want anymore pretend money in my wallet.