And Teresa said: “Minnesota requires two witnesses.”

She said it perfectly flatly, the way you say a thing you have said four thousand times at a counter.

“Two, over sixteen.

And people turn up without them.

Constantly.

All the time, every week, for thirty years.

Somebody has driven here from Wisconsin on a Tuesday and it is the two of them and nobody else and they have no idea it is a requirement.

“And somebody in this building has to go and find two people or send them home.”