Passing out counterfeit $100 bills on the Las Vegas Strip is a bad idea

A few weeks ago, we were spending some warm weather time in Las Vegas. It felt good to enjoy some 75-degree weather after enduring January’s temperatures of -29 and winter conditions like 17 inches of fresh snow in Lander.

We loaded up our 2005-vintage motorhome and rambled down Interstate 15. We stayed at a wonderful park called Las Vegas RV Resort, an RV park near a big casino called Sam’s Town.

This column is all about my apparent attempt at passing a phony $100 bill at a lunch counter at Harrah’s on the Las Vegas strip.

Lucky for me, the gal who received the bad bill examined it, held it u...