Oh good grief






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: "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: "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.......................... The typical Answer

That's too funny.

I have been given funny looks at the store when I have given someone one of those Sacaguewa Dollars. But that is too funny and I could see this happening because most people haven't seen a $2 bill.

That is funny. Reminds me of the time we in Kentucky, several years ago, near Dollywood, on the road into the Blue Mountains National Park. It was around noon, and we stopped for a fast food lunch at either Burger King or McDonalds. My wife and I gave our order to the person at the register when she said she could not help us because the computer was down and could not give us change. We didn't want to leave without a meal before we entered the National Park because were not sure how far it was to the park lodgings and restruant, were we were staying the night so we got out a pen and paper, showed her how much we were giving her and how much the meal cost, subtracted the two and showed her how much change we should get back. She looked at the paper, looked at us, got our meal, gave us change and kept shaking her head. Always wondered how many other customers that day had to do the same to get a meal.

I have a two dollar bill. I've probably only seen 3 in my lifetime. I kept one just for hell's sake and it's sitting in a jar with my penny collection.

It's amazing how technology makes us stupid sometimes. That someone has to be so dependant on a computer for simple subtraction. OldGuy I think that would happen to so many people tending the cash register today if something like that happened.

Maybe we just need to go to a cashless society.... It would be a bit simplier and hey maybe muggings would go down.

Old Guy, that's NOT the first time I've heard that or heard it happening. The sad part is that here in our little town of Marietta, OH, pretty much everyone knows everyone, (less than 15K pop), and the owner of our Local MCD's was telling my wife that she had to buy calculators to have at the registers for when the "kids" hit the wrong button on the puter to give change.
D Cashless, NOW that's priceless, the computer went down so she couldn't take the order to give change, They would have starved to death.
I think that calculators NEED to be taken out of the classrooms. Maybe the Teachers would learn something too!

DarkOne wrote:It's amazing how technology makes us stupid sometimes. That someone has to be so dependant on a computer for simple subtraction. OldGuy I think that would happen to so many people tending the cash register today if something like that happened.

Maybe we just need to go to a cashless society.... It would be a bit simplier and hey maybe muggings would go down.

Years ago Sci-Fi writers wrote about a cashless society - Everyone had cards and what you had earned (which many authors called "credits") were deposited into your account and you presented the account card to make purchases. Much like the ATM cards of today.

It's not that $2 bills are uncommon, it's that people think it is wierd. A friend who works at a bank says that they just send any they get back with the Armored Truck and never keep them around as part of the standard draw. They never get asked for any, kinda like the dollar coin. I used to see dollar coins at the bank all the time in the little coin trays the tellers keep, but not so much any more.