The $2.00 bill i tried to spend

[rick6375]

IF YOU'RE AS OLD AS I AM, THIS IS A RIOT!

Everyone should start carrying $2 bills! I'm 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!

STORY: On my way home from work, I stopped at Taco Bell for a quick bite to eat. I have a $50 bill and a $2 bill. I figure with the $2 bill, I can get something to eat and not have to worry about irritating anyone 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'm 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.

Just think... those two are of the age to be voting!!!

NOW do you understand why and how Obama got a 2nd term?

[JayJay]

Lol I was given 2 $2 bills and I keep thinking their fake but apparently their real....

[plumber63]

LOL
I Carry a silver dollar in my pocket all the time (one of the big ones). And everytime I get change out in front of a teenager they ask me what is it and that they have never seen one. Our youth is so sheltered. I use to carry two dollar bills and the smaller dollar coins and leave them for tips, but they are almost impossible to get.

[OldSchool]

Oh that is funny but on the other hand it is also sad. I have to shake my head at some of the things people say or believe. I fixed many things in my life but I have never been able to fix stupid.

[Bud2rat]

Good story Rick. Yeah, it makes you wonder where this world is headed. BTW, I have several $2 bills. That's what my grandmother use to give me for Christmas.

[Loafer]

That's a funny story and quite believable.
If you pass through Central Vermont, there is a couple of locally owned C stores that actually have a cash draw with the extra bill slot just for $2 bills and coin slot for 50 cent pieces. They have been handing them out as well as 50 cent pieces, since they opened. Everyone around here gets them from stores that end up with them as well, because they have no bill slot, so they are looking to get rid of them quickly.

[duffy]

I use $2 bills a couple of times a year (the Post Office gives them as change along with the small $1 coins). The reaction is just as you describe. The only ones who recognize them are older folks and horse track betters.

[ringadingh]

Great story, I'm sure I have one here that I brought back on my last trip to the states.

[nomadtom69]

another thing that gets the younger people let them take your money after register tells them how much change to give you and if you bill is 9.51 and you give them a 10 and try to give them a penny later it blows their mind

[rick6375]

I've given the clerk the extra change to get an even dollar back and they end up giving me a dollar in change, pennies and all. They are completely lost if te register doesnt tell them what to give.

[Roy1965]

I have two $2 bills tucked away in my wallet that I've carried for several years. Don't know why but I know one was from when my son was in cub scouts close to 20 years ago. Maybe its time to pull them out on some teenagers and see there reactions. LOL

[Chuck A.]

I didn't think any young folks knew there was anything less than a 20. Every time my 17 year old goes out my wife ask if I have a 20 I can give her.

But it totally blows my mine when the bill is $19.92 and the kid at the register has to look 4 times to see what the change is from a 20 dollar bill.

[Eagle Eye]

They only quit making ours in 96. I have some new ones around, my wife grabbed the last new ones from the bank she worked at. (Sorry, I mean bought them)

[BudMan]

Originally Posted by nomadtom69

another thing that gets the younger people let them take your money after register tells them how much change to give you and if you bill is 9.51 and you give them a 10 and try to give them a penny later it blows their mind

Your right about that.

[canuckrider]

Originally Posted by Eagle Eye

They only quit making ours in 96. I have some new ones around, my wife grabbed the last new ones from the bank she worked at. (Sorry, I mean bought them)

Good thing you made that distinction, Dan. I was ready to call the RCMP fraud division!

Apparently, the AUH series of Canadian $2 bills from 1986 are worth some money today.
http://www.torontosun.com/2012/09/26...000-at-auction

Better check through those ones and see what you've got.