The $2 Bill.

[Tink]

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, '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 : 'Naw! 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, 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, 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...... '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 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............

[Marilyn]

I love it!!!! Can you still get $2 bills? I'll have to ask my bank teller daughter. If so, I'm getting a stack of them and having some fun!!!!!

I like paying with dollar coins when I have them and messing them up. Or the bill's $1.32 and I give them $1.00 a quarter and a dime. It makes them sooo confused. They look at me like I'm stupid when they are the ones who can't do the math. They are expecting $2.00 or $1.50 to make change from. The dime throws them off. Of course I don't do this when people are in line behind me.

[Tink]

Oh yes, the banks still get $2 bills. Not many, but they do get and use them.

I too thought this was pretty funny. lol

The funniest thing I ever saw come to the bank was that a new clerk in a convenience store had accepted a withdrawal slip in place of a check from a customer. Needless to say the customer no longer even had an account with us, so it was bogus from the start... but WHY would anyone accept a withdrawal slip as payment? lol

[goofywife]

That is too funny!

[Janet]

I'm just glad because it sounds like you had a terrific time...LOL and hey...isn't that what life is all about???

[Chandra Amaya]

LOL That is great. next time they should try a clinton $3 bill. Bet that would be accepted.

[katcarasella]

I used to have Get $2 bills all the time when I worked at my last job, I always liked to give them to my grandkids. I should start another thread about my job, but I'll wait awhile until everyone knows me better.....

How's that for a cliffhanger???

[AngieDoogles]

My uncle used to give us $2 bills all the time when he would visit. I always looked forward to it and saved them till I had several before I would spend them. He got them from the stamp machine at the post office. For some reason, it always gave $2 bills as change...

[judy]

That's so funny. I think I've had one $2.00 bill in my life.

[katcarasella]

They give them to you at the race track all the time. FYI

[AngieDoogles]

Originally Posted by katcarasella

They give them to you at the race track all the time. FYI

Oh, so THAT'S your story?

[DianaB]

That's a funny story! I am constantly amazed by how little some people know.

I was talking to the boy who carried out my groceries the other day. I asked him if he was in high school and he told me that he had graduated last year and was almost 19. He said that he was going on a missions trip in a year or so. I asked him if he went to the Wesleyn Church because I knew that they did mission trips to Ecuador. He said no, he was Mormon and he didn't even know where Ecuador was. As he was ready to walk off I told him that Ecuador was in South America. Shouldn't a 19 year old know that?

[Ponyup]

Originally Posted by DianaB

That's a funny story! I am constantly amazed by how little some people know.

I was talking to the boy who carried out my groceries the other day. I asked him if he was in high school and he told me that he had graduated last year and was almost 19. He said that he was going on a missions trip in a year or so. I asked him if he went to the Wesleyn Church because I knew that they did mission trips to Ecuador. He said no, he was Mormon and he didn't even know where Ecuador was. As he was ready to walk off I told him that Ecuador was in South America. Shouldn't a 19 year old know that?

I'm not super good at geography, but since you to were just making idle conversation i wouldn't have admited that I didn't know. Just smile & say no we're going to ______.

[teri88]

Don't get me started on what high school kids don't know! A friend of mine was going to California from NJ and her son thought she needed a passport! And my son SWEARS he never heard of Kentucky and didn't know it was a state! Just what ARE they teaching in school?

Whenever we take the train to NYC the ticket machine gives you $1 coins....anywhere I try to use them they give me a hard time!

[Lindsey]

LOL speaking of geography, I just gotta share this story... When I was in Mexico, on our last night there we met some guys from San Diego. They were in their early 20's and went to Mazatlan for Carnival, and to escape the "cold" in California. So my cousin Sheldon says "Yeah we're from Canada and we're missing a blizzard right now, it's -50 degrees Celsius back home!" and they were so amazed... one guy said "I don't know how you guys can do it. This one time I went to Michigan and people were walking around in sweaters and I was there with about 5 layers of sweaters and a couple jackets and I was still shivering!" and his friend cuts in and says "Yeah but that's only Michigan. These guys are from CANADA. Michigan is nothing compared to THAT!" LOL I wonder if he realized where Michigan is relative to Canada.... or if he thinks you step over the magical border into a freezing cold winter wonderland