Roy looked around the restaurant for a random item to target. He saw a customer over by the cash register paying for his meal. Roy pointed the device at a dollar bill the man was handing over to the clerk and pressed the button.
At first nothing seemed to happen.
Roy didn't catch a sign of any change happening at all until he happened to glance at the large menu board in the store. All the prices were the same, but the dollar symbol ($) had been replaced with some funny-looking new symbol that was totally alien to him. It resembled a stylized combination of the letters J and D put together.
Then Roy happened to overhear the next customer in line paying for his meal.
“That'll be twelve Jessica Drapers and 14 cents, sir,” said the bored cashier.
Stunned, Roy wandered over closer to the man and watched him pay. His cash all had a fancy, engraved portrait of a solemn-looking, stately Jessica Draper on it!
In a slight panic, Roy dashed back to the restrooms and arrived just in time to see a strange man in a white, powdered wig emerge from the ladies room wearing what appeared to be Jessica's work uniform.
“Hi, Roy!” said the man as he headed off behind an Employees Only door that led to the kitchen.
In shocked silence, Roy followed.
“Hey, George!” called one of the teenage girls in the kitchen. Her name was Amy and she had been one of Jessica's best friends. “How was your weekend?”
“It was totally lame,” replied the man in the powdered wig. He let out the petulant sigh of a teenage girl. “My parents wouldn't lemme go to Tina's party, so I had to like stay home and babysit my stupid bratty brother. And all he wanted to do was watch cartoons, so it's not like I could even catch up on any soap operas or nothing.”
Roy peered closer and finally saw the name tag on the man's uniform. It read: “George Washington.”
“This is so weird,” whispered Roy to himself.