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
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 at his 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: "Let me 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 his
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~~~
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