$2.00 Bill

USTiger

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THE $2.00 BILL I TRIED TO SPEND:

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.

TRUE 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, the Manager and Server, voted this last election! YIKES!!!

Too late, we already have a nation full of them......

USTiger
 

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discovery_bound

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haha, good story! I have several $2 bills stowed away somewhere from when I was a kid and my parents told me they would be worth good money as a collectors item someday. I've actually forgotten all about them until I read your post...might have to dig 'em out one of these days and see if I can get a free meal too!!

DB
 

gibsondan

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Wow! What an amazing story! I remember when those two dollar bills came out. They've been around for many years.
 

shaun7

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ha! i'd like to have seen that, or the managers face at least :D :D :D :D
 

rgecy

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For those of you who have been hording them for years now, there are some that are worth a small fortune (comparatively). If you have any that are Star Notes (in the I or J series I think), they can be worth $125 each or more!

RGecy
 

Ray S S

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That's a good one. Your post and these replies reminds me of a little joke I read a long time ago.

Some guys in Ohio decided to start printing some money of their own. After a couple of good sucesses they accidently
printed a few $18.00 bills before they caught on to what was being printed. They were going to burn the bills when one
of them suggested, " hey, why don't we takethem down into the mountains in Kentucky. We can pawn them off on those
mountaineers. Those people don't see much money and they will never know that these are not real bills."

So the guys went into the mountains. The first place they stopped at was a little store and one of them said, "This
is going to be easy pickings. Watch this."

They walked into the store and looked around for a minute or two. Then the one guy stepped up to the counter and asked the storekeeper if he would give him change for this bill.

The storekeeper looked at the bill and smiled and replied, "Why, sure, friend. How would you like it? In two 9's or
three 6's?"
 

GunFarce

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They got rid of the 2$ bill in Canada several years ago, and replaced it with a 2$ coin. Queen on the front, and a Polar bear on the back.. The standing joke was, you have the queen on the front, and her bare behind..
 

discovery_bound

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RGecy said:
For those of you who have been hording them for years now, there are some that are worth a small fortune (comparatively). If you have any that are Star Notes (in the I or J series I think), they can be worth $125 each or more!

RGecy

Is there a site I can go to verify that? I have an I series star note from '76.

DB
 

DigginThePast

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Pimp Lenin said:
I think the next time I go into the bank, I'll exchange a $10 bill for some twosies and spend them, just to see what happens. :)

I'm getting $2.00, $1 coins and .50 pieces to give in change to my customers. ;D I figure it'll make for at least a few interesting stories.
 

jlb783

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I went down to the shootin' range and I had to get a box of ammo, and one of the bills I handed them was a $2 bill and the person at the register looked at me like I was crazy and called the owner in there, but luckily he knew they existed.
 

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