These Bills (standard:non fiction, 1275 words)
Author: Abraham Masada	Added: Dec 15 2002	Views/Reads: 3388/2384	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
This story places me in a large city one day years ago, desperate for a "fix," cocaine in this case. I actually forge American currency and use this as real money in order to purchase cocaine---many nights ago.

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of his money. I was glad he had more money where my bill could get lost 
and blend in. And that was it for that particular transaction. I put 
the cocaine inside my sock and I walked out. Fortunately, nobody else 
was there at the time in the bathroom, not that it mattered much. 
Buying and selling went on all the time in the bathroom, just outside 
the surveillance camera's reach. I remember buying another beer before 
leaving, for I love that combination of alcohol and cocaine. I just 
love it!! 

The next week, when I would have some cash on me, I was told that the
FBI had been there because of a counterfeit bill, and they were 
investigating. This is what my friend Sophie told me. Sophie is a 
gambling addict, and they have illegal machines at the bar where youu 
can play for some serious money. "The FBI?," I asked Sophie. "What 
would the FBI be doing investigating countefeit moneyS?" As far as I 
knew, that was the job of the Secret Service. Sophie had been the woman 
who introduced me to the drug dealer. I do not remember his name. For 
the next few days I was so hyped up and paranoid on cocaine that I 
thought surely the police would come knocking at my door as I tried to 
sleep. But that was one of the greatest rushes of my life. It is 
difficult, if not impossible. to describe that feeling when one is 
passing a forged bill. It doesn't matter if it is a one dollar bill. It 
makes no difference, not a damn bit of difference. I know this because 
this exp0erience does not stop here, but my story very soon will. 

I do not do this any more. I am not quite that reckless. But I do
remember watching a documentary on television where a mkan, supposedly 
an expert at something having to do with money, said that the problem 
today is not that of a forger counterfeiting one million dollars but 
that of a million forgers each counterfeiting one dollar. 

Abraham Masada 


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