Story Time! - Page 2

**SeaStone** · 09-22-2007, 11:27 PM

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The following is a *true* story. It amused the hell out of me while it was
happening. I hope it isn't one of those "had to be there" things.

On my way home from the second job I've taken for the extra holiday ca$h I
need, I stopped at Taco Bell for a quick bite to eat. In my billfold is a
$50 bill and a $2 bill. That is all of the cash I have on my person. I
figure that with a $2 bill, I can get something to eat and not have to
worry about people getting pissed at me.

ME: "Hi, I'd like one seven layer burrito please, to go."
IT: "Is that it?"
ME: "Yep."
IT: "That'll be $1.04, eat here?"
ME: "No, it's *to* *go*." [I hate effort duplication.]

At his point I open my billfold and hand him the $2 bill. He looks at it
kind of funny and

IT: "Uh, hang on a sec, I'll be right back."

He goes to talk to his manager, who is still within earshot. The following
conversation occurs between the two of them.

IT: "Hey, you ever see a $2 bill?"
MG: "No. A what?"
IT: "A $2 bill. This guy just gave it to me."
MG: "Ask for something else, THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS A $2 BILL."
IT: "Yeah, thought so."

He comes back to me and says

IT: "We don't take these. Do you have anything else?"
ME: "Just this fifty. You don't take $2 bills? Why?"
IT: "I don't know."
ME: "See here where it says legal tender?"
IT: "Yeah."
ME: "So, shouldn't you take it?"
IT: "Well, hang on a sec."

He goes back to his manager who is watching me like I'm going to shoplift,
and

IT: "He says I have to take it."
MG: "Doesn't he have anything else?"
IT: "Yeah, a fifty. I'll get it and you can open the safe and get change."
MG: "I'M NOT OPENING THE SAFE WITH HIM IN HERE." [my emphasis]
IT: "What should I do?"
MG: "Tell him to come back later when he has REAL money."
IT: "I can't tell him that, you tell him."
MG: "Just tell him."
IT: "No way, this is weird, I'm going in back."

The manager approaches me and says

MG: "Sorry, we don't take big bills this time of night." [it was 8pm
and this particular Taco Bell is in a well lighted indoor mall
with 100 other stores.]
ME: "Well, here's a two."
MG: "We don't take *those* either."
ME: "Why the hell not?"
MG: "I think you *know* why."
ME: "No really, tell me, why?"
MG: "Please leave before I call mall security."
ME: "Excuse me?"
MG: "Please leave before I call mall security."
ME: "What the hell for?"
MG: "Please, sir."
ME: "Uh, go ahead, call them."
MG: "Would you please just leave?"
ME: "No."
MG: "Fine, have it your way then."
ME: "No, 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 and says [at the other end of counter, in a
whisper]

SG: "Yeah, Mike, what's up?"
MG: "This guy is trying to give me some [pause] funny money."
SG: "Really? What?"
MG: "Get this, a *two* dollar bill."
SG: "Why would a guy fake a $2 bill?" [incredulous]
MG: "I don't know? He's kinda weird. Says the only other thing he has is a
fifty."
SG: "So, the fifty's fake?"
MG: "NO, the $2 is."
SG: "Why would he fake a $2 bill?"
MG: "I don't know. Can you talk to him, and get him out of here?"
SG: "Yeah..."

Security guard walks over to me and says

SG: "Mike here tells me you have some fake bills you're trying to use."
ME: "Uh, no."
SG: "Lemme see 'em."
ME: "Why?"
SG: "Do you want me to get the cops in here?"

At this point I was ready to say, "SURE, PLEASE," but I wanted to eat, so
I said

ME: "I'm just trying to buy a burrito and pay for it with this $2 bill."

I put the bill up near his face, and he flinches like I was taking a swing
at him. He takes the bill, turns it over a few times in his hands, and
says

SG: "Mike, what's wrong with this bill?"
MG: "It's fake."
SG: "It doesn't look fake to me."
MG: "But it's a **$2** bill."
SG: "Yeah?"
MG: "Well, there's no such thing, is there?"

The security guard and I both looked at him like he was an idiot, and it
dawned on the guy that he had no clue.

My burrito was free and he threw in a small drink and those cinnamon
things, too. Makes me want to get a whole stack of $2 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. At least you get free food.

Haha, wow. I thought everybody had a $2 bill when they were kids.

Kreg D. Nooks · 09-30-2008, 04:22 PM

There's a few around the house...

That depresses me. That someone that stupid can be a manager. And yet it amuses me.

**Kelley** · 10-01-2008, 06:18 PM

I think I have a $2 bill somewhere at my house.
Idiots. That's really sad how far this story went. I wouldn't have even been hungry anymore.

**Ginevra** · 10-01-2008, 06:27 PM

When I worked at Wendy's for awhile there was a whole bunch of them around, and we took them all the time. I have one in my room that a friend gave to me [Which is the main reason I don't spend it, not to mention having one is cool]. And seriously, I think they get the idiots to be managers because they know those people won't leave cause it's the highest position they'll be getting. I don't care how high I get in a fast food chain, I'm getting another job in the not so distant future.

**HeartAttack** · 10-01-2008, 06:29 PM

But, what if, due to some strange alignment of the stars, a position of CEO falls into your lap? Eh? EH!?

**Ginevra** · 10-01-2008, 06:39 PM

Well, I now work at a small "mom and pop" type place [Everyone keeps saying that, I've never heard it before]. Probably the last food place I will ever work. So, there is no CEO position, and it wouldn't pay a fortune if I got ownership. XD

TrajicxAddicton · 10-02-2008, 01:58 PM

Yuh, I know you can get them for free at banks now.
Just go up and ask.
They're no longer tender, but its still illegal to trash 'em, which is why banks just hand them out.

Kreg D. Nooks · 10-02-2008, 08:16 PM

Really now? I'm gonna go ahead and try that tomorrow, then.

**Opunaya** · 10-03-2008, 11:05 AM

How are they not legal tender still? Unless its been like that for only a few months. I know a resturant that would give those in your change when you paid your bill.

TrajicxAddicton · 10-03-2008, 05:10 PM

They stopped being considered as tender about 2 years after discontinuation, 2003 I believe?

frankiebgoode · 10-05-2008, 11:40 AM

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Originally Posted by TrajicxAddicton

They stopped being considered as tender about 2 years after discontinuation, 2003 I believe?

Um. No. They are always in circulation. They haven't been discontinued. Two dollars bills only account for about 2% of the whole of every U.S. bill in circulation. In fact, two dollars bills are getting more interest and 61 million of them were printed in 2005.

People think two dollar bills are rare, they hang on to them - I have one in my wallet for Emergency Use Only and so I can say I have one - and because they "look different" than other bills people think they're counterfiet and call the police.

Similar to the story above happened at a Best Buy in 2005 and a U.S. Treasury agent had to come and clear things up when a guy trying to pay with 57 $2 bills was arrested.

The only reason people think they're no longer legal tender is because people who don't know they are make up stories that they're not.

Just saying. They're legal tender until such a time as our government rounds them up and burns them all... which I doubt they're going to do given how many people have them even if they don't necessarily use them.