A co-worker sent this to me as it happened yesterday! THE $2.00 BILL I TRIED TO SPEND: IF YOU'RE AS OLD AS I AM, THIS IS A RIOT! * Everyone should start carrying $2 bills! 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 even 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, 'We 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, 'He 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, 'I'm 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: **'Excuse me?' 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, that's 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...... * Guard: *'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 hands, and he 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 and is an idiot .. 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 * * ....YIKES!!! Too late, we already have a nation full of them. *** ** * WOW...can you say "Education"?? RickieB
Thanks for the story, haha. Here is a great article called "Why I Pay With $2 Bills": http://mises.org/story/3584
Use them all the time. Mostly for tips, public transportation and when my daughter was in middle school, gave them for her lunch money. A little older now, she is kinda of embarassed to spend them. I think I will go to Burger King or KFC and see if they will accept them. Good/funny story though!
What's really funny is, the same thing happened to another fellow seventeen years ago. http://www.snopes.com/business/money/tacobell.asp You'd think by now Taco Bell would know better. I spend two's quite often and occasionally the clerk will have to go ask the manager, "Are we allowed to take these?".
Maybe my colleague pulled this off the Web...story is exactly the same... I will have to check with him as his mail to me states this happend yesterday...LOL Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:53:32 +0000 * THE $2.00 BILL I TRIED TO SPEND: IF YOU'RE AS OLD AS I AM, THIS IS A RIOT! * Everyone should start carrying $2 bills! 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 even know they exist. RickieB
I wish i could find the article now but I read about a man that tried to pay with sequentially numbered 2's and had to spend the night in jail waiting for a secret service agent to show up .
Great story RickieB and you got a free meal out of it too!!! Last Wednesday one of the guys at work asked me to look at a 20 dollar bill he had. He had tried to purchase something with the 20 dollar bill and the cashier told him the note was counterfeit because it didn't have the plastic strip inside the note. His note was dated 1985 and the strips where not inserted in the notes at that time. I explained that to him and trade him a newer 20 dollar for his older note. He was happy. Lou
Wow!! Dang, you could have caught the whole thing on video called the police, (City Police) and put it on youtube. Just a thought!! Funny!! :hail:
