Wednesday, October 10, 2007

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.

5 comments:

CroppinRobin said...

oh my gosh!!!!!
I cannot believe that! Was John-Thomas scared? I would have been freaking out. I love how you added that little story at the end of the post!

Sherry Hayes said...

I am really sorry you all had to experience that. I would have been upset too. Poor John Thomas. I hope you took him for ice cream afterwards. :)

Melissa said...

I can't believe security got involved! He's twelve! Did they really think he was the one trying to pass it. Working in a bank, I have seen several bills that are counterfeit and sometime those pens don't work on the fakes!

CroppinRobin said...

hey, we could get into a real discussion about the fact that all paper money is really counterfeit...because the government is just printing money with no 'real' backing.....

CroppinRobin said...

oops, gotta go, the CIA is knocking at my door!