$2 bill store

Copyright 1993 Captain Sarcastic (kkoller@nox.cs.du.edu)

On my way home from the second job I've taken for the extra holiday cash I need, I stopped at Taco Bell for a quick bite to eat. In my billfold is a $50 bill and a $2 bill. That is all of the cash I have on my person. I figure that with a $2 bill, I can get something to eat and not have to worry about people getting ****ed at me.

Me: "Hi, I'd like one seven layer burrito please, to go."
Clerk: "Is that it?"
Me: "Yep."
Clerk: "That'll be $1.04, eat here?"
Me: "No, it's to go." [I hate effort duplication.]

At this point I open my billfold and hand him the $2 bill. He looks at it kind of funny and says,

Clerk: "Uh, hang on a sec, I'll be right back."

He goes to talk to his manager, who is still within earshot. The following conversation occurs between the two of them.

Clerk: "Hey, you ever see a $2 bill?"
Manager: "No. A what?"
Clerk: "A $2 bill. This guy just gave it to me."
Manager: "Ask for something else, there's no such thing as a $2 bill."
Clerk: "Yeah, thought so."

He comes back to me and says,

Clerk: "We don't take these. Do you have anything else?"
Me: "Just this fifty. You don't take $2 bills? Why?"
Clerk: "I don't know."
Me: "See here where it says legal tender?"
Clerk: "Yeah."
Me: "So, shouldn't you take it?"
Clerk: "Well, hang on a sec."

He goes back to his manager who is watching me like I'm going to shoplift, and

Clerk: "He says I have to take it."
Manager: "Doesn't he have anything else?"
Clerk: "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."
Clerk: "What should I do?"
Manager: "Tell him to come back later when he has real money."
Clerk: "I can't tell him that, you tell him."
Manager: "Just tell him."
Clerk: "No way, this is weird, I'm going in back."

The manager approaches me and says,

Manager: "Sorry, we don't take big bills this time of night."
[It was 8:00pm and this particular Taco Bell is in a well-lighted indoor mall with a hundred other stores.]
Me: "Well, here's a two."
Manager: "We don't take those either."
Me: "Why the hell 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 the hell 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: "No, 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 and says at the other end of counter, in a whisper:

Security Guard: "Yeah, Mike, what's up?"
Manager: "This guy is trying to give me some [pause] funny money."
Guard: "Really? What?"
Manager: "Get this, a two dollar bill."
Guard: "Why would a guy fake a $2 bill?" [incredulous]
Manager: "I don't know? He's kinda weird. Says the only other thing he has is a fifty."
Guard: "So, the fifty's fake?"
Manager: "No, the $2 is."
Guard: "Why would he fake a $2 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 says

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 was ready to say, "sure, please," but I wanted to eat, so I said,

Me: "I'm just trying to buy a burrito and pay for it with this $2 bill."

I put the bill up near his face, and he flinches like I was taking a swing at him. He takes the bill, turns it over a few times in his hands, and says

Guard: "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 looked at him like he was an idiot, and it dawned on the guy that he had no clue.

My burrito was free and he threw in a small drink and those cinnamon things, too. Makes me want to get a whole stack of $2 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. At least you get free food...

 

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HAHAHAHA!! That is the funniest story that I ever heard! Some people are just so uneducated about "money".

David

 

I've heard that story before- it always makes me laugh. Believe me, I know how clueless some people are about money. We actually once had someone bring in a fake $5. Why would anyone go to the effort of faking a $5 is beyond me....

Rachel

 

There was a Wal-Mart in the midwest about two years ago (I remember the link made the rounds of my seminary, as the Waltons are Presbyterian, as I am, and the seminary is.). Apparently, someone spent a $300 (!) note. The cashier gave the "customer" their change, and the customer left. Store security had to use the security cameras to figure out who it was. This big-spender was ultimately caught (no surprise here) in a trailer park.

 

Not only $2 bills

It seems like most of the younger aged folks do not have the knowledge or care that much on different denominations of bills or coin other than the basics.
My wife and I went into a subway and bought two subs and drinks, the bill came to $9.27. I handed the young lady a$5,4 ones and a sacagawea.
In turn I got the most puzzled look on her face and I knew what was comming. She said I can't take this, I need 27 cents and I said that was a dollar coin to make ten dollars even, her comment was I will have to talk to the manager because I havent ever seen one of these.
Now this wasn't too bad but she had to call her manager at a different store and ther was a line of people forming behind us.
It had become the principle of the thing for me not to hand her any thing else, she got off the phone and said her manager said to take it and she would check it out later. What a hoot over one gold coin.Eh
P.S. This was only 3 1/2 months ago.

 

I loved the story.. It makes me wonder what our schools are turning out.

One night I was surfing the channels and hit out local, University of Nevada, channel and they had a make shift game show on. I stopped to watch a bit. here's what happend.

3 contestants and the show MC.

MC "Last question of the night, contestants"." Whose portrait is on the current five cent coin."

Contestant #1 -- "James Madison" MC "sorry no"
Contestant #2 -- "Ben Franklin" MC "no, looks like we got a tough one"
Contestant #3 -- "Paul Revere " MC "I'm sorry everyone got that question wrong. The answer is George Washington"

I almost fell out of my seat. I pick up the telephone and called the station and asked to speak to the MC. This is easy with a university station. When he got on the phone this is how the conversation went.

Me, "Hello Mr. MC. I was just watching your game show and wanted to make a comment on it."

MC "Great we really like feedback.!"

Me " Well I got some bad news for you. The portrait that appears on a nickel is not George Washington it's Thomas Jefferson.."

MC " Oh No sir your wrong."
Me " Do you know what's on the back of the same nickel?
He must have taken a nickel out of his pocket.
He said " Yes sir. There is a building with the word Monticello under it"
Me, "did you know that the Monticello is the home of Thomas Jefferson? Why would they put Washington on the front and the home of Thomas Jefferson on the back."

MC "sir, maybe you didn't know but George Washington use to visit Thomas Jefferson all the time."

ME, your right I didn't know that. Thanks. Good night.

catman

 

Last winter I intentionally tried to freak out some people, so I spent a mix of Ike dollars, SBAa, and Sackies. To their credit, no one even flinched. I actually gave one person one of each dollar coin, and all they did was thank me for the unusual coinage. She was fairly young, too, so I was shocked that she did not think I was spending funny money.

Then again, there was the clerk (old enough to have known better) who would not take a silver quarter because it sounded funny.

 

You made me laugh so hard I cried

I have in my possession a 1928 Silver Certificate.
The ONE on the right side is very large.
The back does not have the symbols of the USA just a large ONE with ONE DOLLAR written across it

I received this banknote when I was much younger working a traffic detail.
A cab driver pulled a knife on a passenger because the cabbie said it was a FAKE bill.
The passenger declared it was real and hit the cabbie.
The cabbie held the passenger at knife point untill I arrived to "arrest the passenger for counterfiting".

When I agreed to take the dollar and replace it with one out of my own wallet- Everyone was happy.
I still have the banknote. May not have great collectors value but just the possession and the story reminds me of how "silly" some people can be.
Have to got to work but if anyone is interested, I will post picture of the banknote this evening (e.s.t)

 

LOL....just have to laugh at all of this....generally speaking, a visit occasionally for cash with and from my bank (being an old coin collector since earlier days when the folks coming from Reno either gave me or sold me those famous Silver Dollars which are worth $100 in silver content alone? At any rate, it's a habit to collect some change from the Bank drawers which are still "Legal Tender" and even if a cop has to show up and explain the fact of life to "some people"...oh well, let THEM be the ones DOING IT....and let those people deal with cops who don't believe you can be such a "so and so"...betcha they LAUGH about people like that when they confiscate those people for acting out on a simple matter of LEGAL MONEY to be spent....they MUST ACCEPT ...."All Legal Tender is subject to the same rules as say the Credit Cards you use too?...."

 

Oh, and one more thing which all those responses seem to ignore the factor of...? Why it's PERSONAL vanity of course.....somebody is always looking for special numbers to carry along with them...."6666" is one....B4 i812...may be another who likes 1812...or another series of numbers which may indicate a personal birthday or some other meaning which the individual accepts as "special to them for what EVAH reason they have....and they are willing to "bid" on the change to get that bill for themselves....for a birthdate, a rememberence of a special time or place indicated by numbers to that particular person? Don't tell me that value does not exist for some people to make money on bills that are of interest to them....like those counter parts which would be those "coins of the Realm"....Alexander's coinage for example, if you wish....?

 

That is so funny. I have to get to the bank so I can get some of that fake money. I need counterfeit two dollar bills and some gold coins. I wonder if I could get some Ikes?

 

That,s a long post, might take me another hour to read...LOL

 

Jan 18, 2005

Would this be the longest gap between an old thread and the posts done today on CoinTalk?

Holy moly!

Did the moderators back then even notice that the original poster put their e-mail information?

 

The OP hasn’t been back since 2009...

 

What silver dollars have $100 in silver?
I don't understand posts 9 and 10 at all. (posted yesterday)

 

I wasn't a moderator in 2005, I actually more a participant on a couple of other that existed then and busy "experimenting on the internet"

Jim

 

I knew this had to be old because 7 layer burritos where I live were 79 cents in 1991. Then they came out with the "7 layer burrito Lite" which had lite sour cream and they raise the price 20 or 30 cents to catch on the Lite Diet Craze. Then another 10 cents shortly after that. Which puts us at about the $1.04/1.09 for a 7 layer. Wow a long time ago ... just like this thread.

7 layer burritos now cost about $3.79 each.
FYI ...

 

wasn't that when silver was $100 and ounce ??
lol

 

I thought the highest silver ever got was around $50?
And there's about 3/4 of an ounce of silver in a silver dollar. (77%)

 

Just under $50 an ounce and a silver dollar contains .7734 ounces of silver.