The setting: Darrow’s Bar ’n Bite, across from the Ukiah Courthouse
The actors: Padget, owner, cashier
Mona, server, professionally charming & efficient
Disrupter, unremarkable, neatly garbed; speaks just loudly enough to be heard
Overhearer, skilled at fading into any background
A dozen patrons enjoying Mona’s service
ROLL ‘EM:
Padgett: You think this is April Fool’s Day?
Disrupter: Not at all. It’s 20 January, a day of national reckoning and I’ve celebrated it with your $6 cuppa for which I’m paying with 3 crisp $2 bills.
P: You’re not serious.
D: True, but I’ve offered you legal U.S. tender to pay for your excellent coffee, and you’ve refused my offer.
P: That stuff’s not cash. It’s funny money and I won’t accept it.
D [turns to patron seated near the credit/debit card receiver]: Excuse me, did you by any chance overhear what was just said?
Overhearer: You know I did…and, yes, I’ll stick around for a while to see what happens.
D: Thank you.
P: Look, SIR, you’ve had your joke or whatever it is. You talk funny. You legal?—but I’m not playing. My line’s piling up. Give me real money or I call the police.
D: I offered you legal tender. It’s good for all debts, public and private, backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. And you refused to accept it. Your refusal cancels the debt . . .
P: Mona! Call the cops. We got us a nut and he’s disrupting business!–People, please! You can pay Mona at the other end of the counter while I deal…
D…but I’m making the offer again. Everyone here can see me offering you payment and . . .
O: I’m not comfortable now. I’ll just move nearer the door…here’s my card. I’ll be able to see and hear whatever happens.
P: THAT’S NOT MONEY!
D: Of course it’s money. 3 American two-dollar greenbacks, uncirculated . . .
P: IT’S DEFACED! You’re COMMITTING A CRIME! You’re trying to pass a DISFIGURED BILL! CITIZEN’S ARREST! I’m arresting you . . . (give me 6 real bucks and I’ll let you go) . . .
D: “Defaced” is pretty strong language for currency with a removable portrait of our President-elect glued over Jackson . . .
(A siren on North State St.–Customers, who had just begun forming two groups, are distracted and relieved by the arrival of two officers.)…
Overhearer: You took a gamble.
Disrupter: I did. He might have taken the currency. Sells on e-Bay for $2.95 & way up.
O: That’s not what I mean. Anyway, where you from?
D: The Old Country.
O: Where you headed?
D: Don’t know.
Exhibit A (Sales pitch): “the DONALD TRUMP for President 2024 uncirculated $2Bill- this bill is Genuine AuthenticLegalTender of the United States, which has been enhanced with beautiful colorized images.”
Exhibit B (18 U.S. Code § 333): “[it is illegal to] mutilate, cut, deface, disfigure, or perforate, or unite or cement together, or do any other thing to any bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt issued by any national banking association, or Federal Reserve bank, or the Federal Reserve System…with intent to render such bank bill, draft, note or other evidence of debt unfit to be reissued.”
Exhibit C (Legaleaglese): “the modifications made to the Trump $2 bills are non-permanent and do not render the underlying $2 bill unfit for reissue. The companies selling these bills use techniques such as stickers, heat-pressed images, and other enhancements that can be removed without damaging the original currency. These bills are still legal tender…“ ( doughnutlounge.com/is-the-trump-2-dollar-bill-legal/)
Exhibit D (Q&A as seller’s CYA): ”Is the $2 bill authentic U.S. legal tender? Yes, however the Trump Guilty in Rigged Trial Collectible $2 Bill is claimed fictitiously [stet] to be a genuine U.S. legal tender with a high-definition colorization process . . .”.
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