COUNTERFEITING

I remember one day I went over to Rosita’s mother’s house, Lencha, dona Lorenza.  She had a little convenience store on the corner across from Wayo’s house.  I had cut a piece of paper the size of a dollar bill.  I traced the head of George Washington and drew the $1 on each corner.  And then I colored it with crayons.  I thought, I’m going to see if dona Lorenza will take this dollar bill and give me some sweet bread and some change. 

I told her, “I want some of this sweet bread and some of that.”  She said, “That will be twenty five cents.”  “Okay,” so I reach into my pocket and I hand her the dollar bill I had drawn with pencils and colored in with crayon.  Thinking she was going to go for it.  She looked at it and then handed it back to me and said, “That will be twenty five cents.”  I said, “Oh, okay.” And then I put it back in my pocket and pulled out a quarter.  I paid her and said, “Thank you.” 

I guess she didn’t go for that.  I never tried that again ever.  Counterfeiting was not my thing, I tried it and it didn’t work.  That was my little kid thinking.  I think she thought, he drew something and he was just showing it to me.  I didn’t say, here, I’m going to pay with this.  She looked at it and handed it back to me and said, it will be twenty five cents.  I was the only one thinking I was a legend in my own mind. 

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Above two pictures: some of the great old houses of Encinal.  Most of them have been taken down. 

The Presbyterian Chuch
has been preserved and it has
a Historial Marker.