Topic: Funny but sadly true, I suppose
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Tue 05/06/08 06:16 AM
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IF YOU'RE AS OLD AS I AM - THIS IS A RIOT!

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 from 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 (incredulo us): " 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

Flirtyvirgo's photo
Tue 05/06/08 06:21 AM
laugh

snowangel2's photo
Tue 05/06/08 06:24 AM
laugh laugh laugh

celtic_kitten's photo
Tue 05/06/08 06:26 AM
laugh omg too funny

LightVoice's photo
Tue 05/06/08 06:28 AM
laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh

RicJL's photo
Tue 05/06/08 06:29 AM
I still have a two dollar bill in the wallet I take with me when I go to Canada, I tried to get it exchanged at a US bank and they refused it, too.
Youth is wasted on the young...

Enya's photo
Tue 05/06/08 06:30 AM
laugh thats a funny moment! laugh

My 10 year old just discovered my $2 bill laugh

MyrtleBeachDude's photo
Tue 05/06/08 06:32 AM
laugh laugh laugh laugh I remember those but I haven't seen one in forever

mainelyme's photo
Tue 05/06/08 06:52 AM
My grandparents used to get my sister and I "bunny money" on Easter, two dollar bills with a bunny sticker. I'm only 21, but I do know that there really is a 2 dollar bill, lol.

RJR1's photo
Tue 05/06/08 06:52 AM
I have a few. Think I'll go shopping. I could use a laugh.

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Tue 05/06/08 06:52 AM
This is from GuyGuy1225...he was not able to post for some reason.....

laugh laugh laugh laugh Some people!!!!!

No1sLove's photo
Tue 05/06/08 07:04 AM
laugh laugh laugh That's rich!

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Tue 05/06/08 07:09 AM
laugh laugh laugh

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Tue 05/06/08 07:09 AM
laugh laugh laugh

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Thu 05/08/08 01:22 AM
I would have loved to see that. laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh

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Thu 05/08/08 06:42 AM
I had somethign similar happen when I went to use a handful of susan b anthony dollar coins. The manager (kid about 22 years of age) swore up and down they were quarters, and when I showed him the value imprinted on the coin, he thought they were fake.