>"See? I use a higher grade ink than you do," he says with pride. "It makes the background come up sharper." >You stare in disbelief at the phony bill in your hand. >"You can keep that one." the man says. He walks off and disappears into a store. >"He can't be right!" you tell yourself. >"My money can't be counterfeit!" >You put his bill in your pocket and take out one of yours. You examine it carefully. >First the front, then the back. >On the back of the bill, at the bottom, in tiny, tiny type, you read the words: "Otto Quincy Vandermint Practical Joke Com pany." >What a hilarious joke!! >So why aren't you laughing? >THE END The whole fucking book our money was counterfeit! We might go back a few pages and try again, picking either the teenagers or the young mother to see what happens.