I'm pulling another all-nighter but not because of anything school-related. The last two nights I've gone to bed at 2 and 4am and since I need to wake up at 4:30 for work it just isn't worth nap. I might as well catch up on my TED Talks.

After running the register at Target for three months, deli for a year, and now at BR for a few months I finally came across my first counterfeit money. Those of you that know me well know I used to collect coins so I'm fairly familiar with all things currency. A guy came up and was buying about two hundred bucks worth of clothes. He hands me two hundred dollar bills, which isn't rare given the number of international tourists we get. A lot of them just walk around with a couple thousand dollars. Anyway as soon as he hands me the bills I can tell they're fake. The ink didn't feel quite right and the paper seemed more rigid. It's store policy for us not to examine the money up at the register and I didn't want to accuse the guy of trying to give me fake money without knowing for sure so I just took it. As soon as he left I got my manager and told him about it. Without holding it up to the light I could tell there was a watermark so I got curious as to how the guy managed to put that in there. Turns out it was a watermark of Abraham Lincoln. The guy had bleached a $5 bill and then just printed the $100 design over it. Oh well. I just hope the guy understands that the Secret Service is in charge of investigating counterfeit currency.