The $2.00 bill i tried to spend:

Tony

Staff member
This is NOT political, so don't make it out to be that way. This is just to get a laugh lmao.


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!!!
 

Derek

Well-Known Member
That's awesome!!! I have a stash of two dollar bills here. I might try doing that. I'll take the wife out for a quick trip to Taco Bell and cause a rukus, lol
 

Lee

Well-Known Member
Thats funny. I have a two dollar bill i got when i was in LA 20 years ago.
 

Whirlybird

Member
Darn! Got rid of all of mine. How old was the manager?? I think you have to send this in to Jay Leno before he retires :lmao:

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At least you did not have this guy's problem . . . :yikes:

http://www.wnd.com/2005/04/29732/
 

Lee

Well-Known Member
We used to have problems when coming down from Scotland to England. Same currency just with bank of scotland written on them. I lost count of thimes people ask if they were real.
 

wolfman76

Well-Known Member
that is too funny tony man makes me wish i had some 2 dollar bills so i could go to our local taco bell... CLASSIC!!!!
 

Graham Lawrie

Well-Known Member
I collect money from all over the world and did not know there was a $2 bill!! I have a $1 from the 1800,s and 1970,s and they are identical, never changed in years. @Lee, i used to go to Air Training Corps camps in England every year in the late 70,s and they would only give you 80p for a Scottish pound on the Royal Air Force Camps. I handed over a £10 note which was held to the light to check for a watermark, i was handed a £1 in my change which i held up to the light , the shopkeeper was gob smacked with my insolenece:)
 

murankar

Staff member
I had a Section Sergeant in South Korea who would carry nothing but $2 bills in his pocket when he went out on the town. One night I went with him and he payed the cabby with a few and said we were short. The he looked again and was dumbfounded.
 

helicc16

the Smoothie Pilot
When never I went back to Vietnam to visit with my folks, people would ask me for 2-dollar bills. Over there, people carry these rare bills in their wallets as lucky charms. They would be willing to pay you a lot more than the face value for these bills.
 

llommel

Member
Great story Tony. Kinda reminds me of the clerks who can't make change unless the register tells them how much.
Or when you give them a $5 & .29 cents when the cost is $2.29. They don't know what to do.
 

Ricky Minaya

New Member
Hey there I'm 16 born in 1996 and I got my first $2 bill at like 11yrs old. I'm not trying to be insulting here but I have $14 worth of $2 bills and every one in my near life has known about $2 bill especially my friends lol. Funny story though...
 

wolfman76

Well-Known Member
WOW!!!!! Llommel how you been where you been hiding????? Been awhile since i last saw you post up.. Oh yeah welcome back... Lol
 

Wolfman

Member
That was good Tony I'd loved to see the look on his face when he found out it was real! I have a guy that comes into work and pays with the gold dollar coins and 2 dollar bills, it is really a pain, because there just isn't that many slots in the those little cash boxes.
 
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