Funny money

[Arr MiHardies]

This came across my Facebook wall and thought it would be appreciated here.

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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,

Guard: '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 will be voting soon!!?!

YIKES!!!

 

[rogerb]

Worse than voting soon, they could be our future leaders.

 

[ARtraveler]

:agree:

 

[granpa in Cincy]

I gave my grandson some $2 bills for his b- day and he had a similar problem at Target but not as extreme. nojoke

 

[Cuban Spyder]

I'm going to the bank today and get a few $2 bills.

 

[granpa in Cincy]

For real fun, when going thru the checkout at the grocery store, ask the girl if they take Hawaiian money. :roflblack: :roflblack:

 

[boborgera]

For real fun, when going thru the checkout at the grocery store, ask the girl if they take Hawaiian money. :roflblack:

I have a few US bills stamped in red HAWAII, I was told that after Pearl Harbor the government thought the Japanese were going to invade Hawaii so this way we could consider those bills void if they did take over the Islands.:dontknow:
:dontknow:

 

[wyliec]

All I know is the original post made me hungry. I think I'll go to Taco Bell and buy something worth $4 and pay with 399 pennies.

Now there's a thought. Maybe the person who told that story may want to go to the same Taco Bell and pay with all pennies. That'll show'em.

 

[Blue Star]

Reminds me of when my oldest was seven, and came to me telling me the TV was broken. I asked what was wrong, and she said there was no color. I walked in, and they were watching "I Love Lucy" that was not colorized.

 

[Cavman]

There is an annual event that takes place in WV every year called the Old Timer's Reunion, OTR. It's the largest cavers convention in the country. This will be the 63rd year on Labor Day weekend in Daily, WV. (South of Elkins).

They order from the bank(s) $2 dollar bills in large quanities. They exchange these bills with the vendors at OTR so they have less paper bills to handle. Cavers buy a lot of gear from the vendors using cash. So, in WV for a while, you will see lots of $2 bills in being spent in the area.

I did a Black Beard's Cruise a number of years ago using $2 dollar bills and stamping them with www.wheresgeorge.com on them so I could track where they went. You may see that stamp at SpyderFest next week? :thumbup:

 

[SpyderDon]

There's an old story about the folks around the Navy's Boot Camp in Greatlakes, Il complaining about how big a PITA the Sailors were. They didn's support the community, etc. It got so bad that the Navy decided to prove once and for all that they were full of crap. They paid the entire base with $2.00 bills, next thing you know the locals were bitching about all the damn $2.00 bills, when the Navy put the word out it stopped the complaints.

Like all Navy sea storys, I don't know how true this one is but it's interesting.

By the way, the differende between a sea story and a fairy tale, a fairy tale starts "once upon a time", a sea stroy starts, "this ain't no sh**"!

 

[granpa in Cincy]

Similar story was printed in the Readers Digest at least 20 years ago - except it was the Army that paid in $2.00 bills. :roflblack:

 

[Cavman]

Quite a number of years ago, there was going to be an NSS Convention. They wanted to know how much revenue would be generated at the convention in the small town where it was to be held.
So, someone got the idea of using wooden nickels for dollars. So they got the banks, merchants, eateries, etc together on the deal.
As it turned out, I think the total spent using the wooden nickels alone generated about $43,000 for the week's convention. This did not count checks, other cash money or credit cards.
I just back from the bank where I picked up some ones, fives, tens and some crisp new two dollar bills. :yes:
Now, I'm about to get online and register this money ear marked for SpyderFest, at www.wheresgeorge.com.

Later.......

 

[Tin Can]

Great Story....

 

[Arr MiHardies]

I don't think the story I posted is true. The biggest giveaway is the way it was written. Its Told from an alternating first person/omnipresent viewpoint. The author seems to know exactly what is being said outside of his presence.

 

[Firefly]

I don't think the story I posted is true. The biggest giveaway is the way it was written. Its Told from an alternating first person/omnipresent viewpoint. The author seems to know exactly what is being said outside of his presence.

Yeah-- no truth to the story at all... but it's damn funny......

 

[Smokinspyder]

My dad and I used to LOVE spending 2 dolalr bills . Its hysterical that some people dont know that they are real ! I am going to go get some just for fun now !!!! THe great lakes thing must be from a LONG time ago . I worked at the Circuit City up there a few years back and all the Naval kids would come there and we never had a problem with the $$$ they spent . Just the attitudes on the kids thats really it aside from that mall is a massive melting pot of different backgrounds .

 

[rogerb]

When I was in the Navy back in 64 to 68 we were paid in $2 bills a couple of times. The government was reintroducing the $2 bill into the economy. An E-3 in those days was getting around $40 dollars every two weeks. When I got out in 68 an E-5 was making $296 a month. Man we didn't know how rich we were.

 

[retread]

Wonder how many $2 bills we can spread around at Spyderfest.

john