Anybody want some pretty coloured paper?

So let me set up the scene for you...

There is a group of us at work that are in a lottery pool. We give $10 or $20 to the Lottery Guy and he records how many weeks we have paid for and he buys the tickets for the group.

Today he says "Michelle, you owe me some money - do you have any on you?"

I say "Well actually I DO have money" (This is a RARE occasion - I usually use my Visa for everything and rarely have cash).

So I pull $10 out of my pocket that I had put there that morning cause it was on my dresser. As I pull it out I am feeling it...hmmm feels odd...

I tell Lottery Guy - my money 'feels odd'...I am going to investigate.

Being the super sleuth that I am, I deduce that this $10 note is a FAKE!!!

How do I know this? Well quite a few years ago I was preparing a deposit for work. I went on my merry way and forwarded the funds to Finance for deposit...well, it turns out the money was counterfeit...What a HUGE hullabaloo that was. How was I supposed to know how to recognize counterfeit money? Well after that I made it my mission to know the difference.

I took the magnifying glass to the fake note and was able to tell. THEN I put it in the counterfeit detector and discovered that I was CORRECT...a lot of good that did me, now I am out $10!

Unfortunately when I bought something earlier in the week - another strange time when I had actually cash, they gave me counterfeit money for change!

Mark is going to take the 'pretty coloured paper' to work tomorrow to show everyone...I am going to have to come up with another $10 to give Lottery Guy...