Hillarious story!!! Even I remember these, and I'm not that old!

THE $2.00 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.

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.' He 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.....

They live and BREED among us!

Anyone for a Veggie-mite sandwich?


Ewwwww......

maybe they would have accepted wooden nickels.

Was one of them Ron?

OMG, I am trying so hard not to laugh too loud right now! FAntastic story! Thanks!!!

The bagel shop didn't have any problem accepting my $2 bill last week!

the presidential dollar coins are so shiny - they look like arcade tokens. i tried to pay for a drop-in class with some and the teacher was hesitant to take them.

Reminds me of my magic defective Dunkin Donuts gift card. When it was down to just a buck or two, the nearby DD couldn't get it to swipe. They'd try a few times, and then just give me the coffee for free. I wasn't trying to pull anything, just wanted to use up what was left on the card, but I started to feel almost guilty handing it to them. One day it finally worked, and that was the end of a good thing.

hahah. we had wooden nickels when i first started working here and they were still counting them as part of their vault cash! n

whooa wooden nickels are real

When I was in high school and college, I worked in a video arcade. One day a kid, younger than I was at the time, came in with ten silver dollars. The 1920-1923 Peace dollars. He asked to change them into quarters. I asked him if his parents knew he was spending them. The kid replied: "They're mine, I can do what I want with them, and I want quarters!" I asked again if he was sure he wanted quarters for them, and he said give them to me or I'll get them someplace else.

So I gave him 40 quarters, I put the silver in my pocket, pulled a $10 out of my wallet and put it in my till. Last time I checked, those coins were worth $10 each on silver value alone...And I still have them!

FBH - my husband did something similar back in the 70's when an elderly woman wanted to deposit her Morgan Dollars. He still has them.

I see a retirement plan growing!!

Nice! I didn't really have anyone watching me in the arcade, can tellers switch out money like that if someone tries to deposit it now? I've always wondered about that...

He tried to tell her what she had, but she didn't care. He bought the coins from the teller drawer.