Two Dollar Bill

[utbva]

This story didn't happen to me, but I thought it was pretty good.


IF YOU'RE AS OLD AS I AM - THIS IS A RIOT!


The $2 Bill. Everyone should start carrying them! I am STILL laughing!! I think we need to quit saving our $2 bills and bring them out in public. The younger generation doesn't know they exist.

STORY:

On my way home from work I stopped at Taco Bell for a quick bite to eat. In my billfold are a $50 bill and a $2 bill. I figure that with a $2 bill I can get something to eat and not have to worry about anyone getting irritated at me for trying to break a $50 bill.

Me:
'Hi I'd like one seven-layer burrito please to go '
Server: 'That'll be $1.04. Eat in?'
Me: 'no it's to go.' At this point I open my billfold and hand him the $2 bill. He looks at it kind of funny.

Server: 'uh hang on a sec I'll be right back.' He goes to talk to his manager who is still within my earshot. The following conversation occurs between the two of them:
Server: 'hey you ever see a $2 bill?'
Manager: 'No. A what?'
Server: 'A $2 bill. This guy just gave it to me.'
Manager: 'Ask for something else. There's no such thing as a $2 bill.'
Server: 'yeah thought so.' He comes back to me and says' don't take these. Do you have anything else?'
Me: 'Just this fifty. You don't take $2 bills? Why?'
Server: 'I don't know.'
Me: 'See here where it says legal tender?'
Server: 'Yeah.'
Me: 'so why won't you take it?'
Server: 'well hang on a sec.' He goes back to his manager who has been watching me like I'm a shoplifter and says to him' says I have to take it.'
Manager: 'Doesn't he have anything else?'
Server: 'yeah a fifty. I'll get it and you can open the safe and get change ' Manager: 'I'm not opening the safe with him in here.'
Server: 'What should I do?'
Manager:
'Tell him to come back later when he has real money.'
Server: 'I can't tell him that! You tell him.'
Manager: 'Just tell him.'
Server: 'No way! This is weird. I'm going in back.'
The manager approaches me and says' sorry but we don't take big bills this time of night..
Me: 'It's only seven o'clock! Well then here's a two dollar bill.'
Manager: 'We don't take those either.'
Me: 'Why not?'
Manager: 'I think you know why.'
Me: 'No really tell me why.'
Manager: 'Please leave before I call mall security.'
Me: 'What on earth for?'
Manager: 'please sir.'
Me: 'uh go ahead call them.'
Manager: 'Would you please just leave?'
Me: 'No.'
Manager: 'Fine -- have it your way then.'
Me: 'Hey from Burger king isn't it?' At this point he backs away from me and calls mall security on the phone around the corner. I have two people staring at me from the dining area and I begin laughing out loud just for effect. A few minutes later this 45-year-oldish guy comes in.

Guard: 'Yeah Mike what's up?'
Manager (whispering): 'This guy is trying to give me some (pause) funny money.' Guard: 'No kidding! What?'
Manager: 'Get this .. A two dollar bill.'
Guard (incredulous): ' Why would a guy fake a two dollar bill?'
Manager: 'I don't know. He's kinda weird. He says the only other thing he has is a fifty.
'Guard: 'oh so the fifty's fake!'
Manager: 'no the two dollar bill is.'
Guard: 'Why would he fake a two dollar bill?'
Manager: 'I don't know! Can you talk to him and get him out of here?'
Guard: 'Yeah.' Security Guard walks over to me and...... 'Mike here tells me you have some fake bills you're trying to use.'
Me: 'uh no.'
Guard: 'Lemme see 'em.'
Me: 'Why?'
Guard: 'Do you want me to get the cops in here?' At this point I am ready to say'Sure please!' but I want to eat so I say 'I'm just trying to buy a burrito and pay for it with this two dollar bill.' I put the bill up near his face and he flinches like I'm taking a swing at him. He takes the bill turns it over a few times in his handsand says'Hey Mike what's wrong with this bill?'
Manager: 'It's fake.'
Guard: 'It doesn't look fake to me.'
Manager: 'But it's a two dollar bill.'
Guard: 'Yeah?'
Manager: 'Well there's no such thing is there?'
The security guard and I both look at him like he's an idiot and it dawns on the guy that he has no clue. So it turns out that my burrito was free and he threw in a small drink and some of those cinnamon thingies too.

Made me want to get a whole stack of two dollar bills just to see what happens when I try to buy stuff. If I got the right group of people I could probably end up in jail. You get free food there too.

Just think...those two will be voting soon

[GrayBeard Phil]

Bill:

LOL, gosh that was funny.

No, No, next try to pass off a couple of dollar coins, say a few Susan B's, at a fast food place. There is no "slot" in the cash register for dollar coins, they just stare at the cash drawer for a least 30 seconds trying to decide where to put it in the cash drawer.

Of course an Eisenhower dollar coin would be even better. Having never heard of Eisenhower, they might think it is a foreign coin.

Phil

[sawdustus]

My middle son, a coin collector in his spare time, likes to get rid of some of the Sacajawia dollars he has accumulated by using them in place of dollar bills. He often gets the same kind of treatment even though noone ever counterfits dollar coins.