another bill

i went the mini-market the other night to get some water and a soda. i gave the cashier a ten spot and he took it, glanced at it and then said something to me in chinese. of course i didn’t understand so he said in english that he wanted another bill. i was confused but i simply gave him a twenty i had. when i got home i looked at my ten bill and it looked and felt real to me. could it be fake? so then i googled what the new tens look like and it looked the same, so i was relieved that it wasn’t just my own naivete that got me stuck with this bill. but then i noticed that there is supposed to be a watermark of hamilton that you can only see if you put it up to the light. unfortunately the ten i had didn’t have that mark. damn, i didn’t realize they could make them so realistic. i would never have known if the cashier at the little local market didn’t catch it in a glance. i don’t know how he saw it so easily. he musta had some x-ray vision or something. i guess when you see cash all day long you learn to catch those things quickly. so now i’m going to be paranoid about the cash i recieve, hahah. it’s kind of annoying that so many places in the LES only take cash, otherwise i would just use my debit card and avoid all this petty crap.