$2.00 bills anyone ?

[MD Dog]

THE $2 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.

THE $2 BILL

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 the 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. '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.

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!!!!

[nhbenz]

Funny stuff! Glad you got some food out of the deal for your hassle.

[stefen]

Beleive it or not, yesterday I found 2 ~ $2 bills I was saving...maybe I coluld get 2 burritos, ya think.

Next time ask him if he'd take some dollar bills from Alaska

[MD Dog]

Sorry guys, didn't mean to give the impression this actually happened to me. It's a copy of an email I got.

[metal chick]

I have about 20 $2 bills saved. I think I'll still save them if it's that much of a hassle to try to buy something with them, lol!

[Saturna]

I always wondered what the deal was with the US and $2 bills. Growing up with our Canadian equivalent, I didn't give them a second thought. They were just another bill, like a $1 or a $5.

Now that we have $2 coins, you don't see the bills anymore. MDer's hope we'll get a $5 coin someday, heeheehee.



Jay

[wildrider]

It's kinda like when I tell people my family is from New Mexico and I'm going to visit.

They always ask, "Do they speak English?" "Do you speak Spanish?" "Can you bring me some of their currency? ...it should be cheaper." "What kind of restaurants do they have there?"

People are such --deleted-- "mor-ons". I can't believe it deleted that.

God loves them

w

[The.Boomer]

How does a thread about a two dollar bill evolve into a commentary on race relations ?

JK

[wildrider]

How does a thread about a two dollar bill evolve into a commentary on race relations ?

JK

Just comparing the education. They can't count without a register (I won't say calculator, because I don't think they know what the symbols on the buttons mean). They cain't speek rat. Dey have inventif speling. They only know they like Florida, but don't know how to get there. I'm sorry, I don't knock the educators, I think their hands are tied. We need to send our kids to Japan so they can win spelling bees and know math.

Sorry, soapbox.

w

[Smee]

LOL!!! It really happened to me when I was disposing of some 50 cent pieces from coin roll hunting when I missed the bank close.

Went to Mc Donalds and bought a cup of coffee and paid for it with 3 Kennedy half dollars. The girl's response was: "We don't take foreign money."

Wish I had thought of what that guy did. Of course, with our deputies here in Southeast Arkansas, I might be doing time in county jail for passing funny money.

[Old Dog]

Luckily the security guard was old enough to recognize a 2
he could have been one of these late me generation kids whose face looks like someone threw a tackle box at it,
likes his job cause he "gets to carry a gun" and is about as smart as a carp.
We have a ton of security around here like that.

Someone got really lucky

LOL
Thom

[Zephyr]

The manager probably would have believed THIS one:

[Real de Tayopa Tropical Tramp]

HIO: when they kicked me out of school and put me in the Navy, I received a whole $ 20:00 a month, of which most were in $ 2:00 bills which by coincidence, was what many of my sinning swab jobs buddies were charged in a happy house, or so they told me.

Being a very shy, bashful, unsophisticated, Saint, I was mentally and morally unable to partake of the forbidden fruit, and so never found about girls unitl I was 32.

There was one humerous situation though, which I hesitate to relate--------Maybe ?

Don Jose de La Mancha

p.s.I never really understood why they had to take them out of circulation until recently.

[G.I.B.]

Now that is a funny story...

I routinely get a roll of $1.00 coins from the bank. Its fun to spend them for small purchases as the clerks don't know where to put them in the register. It really mucks up the works and fun to watch.

[Ed T]

You should have asked him if he would take a roll of wooden nickels...LOL Too bad that I have never had anything like this happen to me...Or have I

Ed T

[Old Dog]

LOL,
The confusion mounts as we spend our clad Kennedy and Susie Bs as well.
They really freak out when you give them an Ike.
or a combination of the above.

It's almost like trying to spend foreign coinage !
A lot of fun to try and confuse them at the register.

LMAO
Thom

[downeysc]

grrrrr. I ran into his brother, Kids it is important to finsh high school at a min. and read something...
Glad you got the free food, even at the cost of holding your self back.
Sean