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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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Manager: "Ask for something else. There's no such thing as a $2 bill.
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Server: "Yeah, thought so.
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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.
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Me: "See here where it says legal tender?"
Server: "Yeah.
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Me: "So, why won't you take it?"
Server: "Well, hang on a sec.
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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.
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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.
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Server: "I can't tell him that! You tell him.
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Manager: "Just tell him.
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Server: "No way! This is weird. I'm going in back.
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The manager approaches me and says, "I'm sorry, but we don't take big bills this time of night.
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Me: "It's only seven o'clock! Well then, here's a two dollar bill.
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Manager: "We don't take those, either.
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Me: "Why not?"
Manager: "I think you know why.
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Me: "No really, tell me why.
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Manager: "Please leave before I call mall security.
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Me: "Excuse me?"
Manager: "Please leave before I call mall security.
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Me: "What on earth for?"
Manager: "Please, sir.
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Me: "Uh, go ahead, call them.
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Manager: "Would you please just leave?"
Me: "No.
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Manager: "Fine -- have it your way then.
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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.
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Guard: "No kidding! What?"
Manager: "Get this .. A two dollar bill.
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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.
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Guard: "Oh, so the fifty's fake!"
Manager: "No, the two dollar bill is.
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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.
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Security Guard walks over to me and......
Guard: "Mike here tells me you have some fake bills you're trying to use.
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Me: "Uh, no.
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Guard: "Lemme see 'em.
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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 says, "Hey, Mike, what's wrong with this bill?"
Manager: "It's fake.
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Guard: "It doesn't look fake to me.
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Manager: "But it's a two dollar bill.
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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.
We use $2 bills all the times around here. It's kind of a Clemson Football tradition. Whenever we go to an away or bowl game the local stores and resturants there get swamped with them.
Wanting a Custom fit in an off the rack world.
I don't have time for a job, I just need the money.
My great Uncle was a Merchant marine, he used to bring me money from all over the world. Some of the counties names don't even exist anymore. That'd be a hoot to pass off.
Wanting a Custom fit in an off the rack world.
I don't have time for a job, I just need the money.
I had one the other day. Already spent it. The mint will have to start printing them again if the cost of living keep spiraling out of control. It will have to replace the $1.00 bill.
No They had a $2 bill back in the 50's and 60's. My Uncle used to give me one every year for my birthday for about 6 yrs back then. I still have them. They reissued them again, don't think they still do though. My mom as a lot of old money she collected. There even was what was called a horse blanket dollar which was a lot bigger than what our paper money is today. She also has some gold and silver certificate bills and a few 10 dollar gold pieces.
In 1976, the Treasury Department reintroduced the $2 bill as a cost-saving measure.[2] As part of the United States Bicentennial celebration, the note was redesigned and issued as a Federal Reserve Note. The obverse featured the same portrait of Jefferson, a green instead of red seal and serial numbers, and an engraved rendition of John Trumbull's The Declaration of Independence on the reverse. First day issues of the new bicentennial $2 bills could be taken to a post office and stamped with the date "APR 13 1976". In all, 590,720,000 notes from Series 1976 were printed. In 1996 and 1997, 153,600,000 bills were printed[3] as Series 1995 for the Federal Reserve District of Atlanta. In 2004, 121,600,000 of the newest $2 bills, Series 2003, were printed for the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank. Both of these issues have the same design as the Series 1976 $2 bill. A new issue of Series 2003A $2 bills was printed from July to September 2006 for all 12 Federal Reserve Banks. In all, 220,800,000 notes were printed.[4] There are currently no plans to redesign the $2 bill.
in 2000 the mint made 2000 2$ bills for people that were on the mints mailing list...i think my dad ordered one of em...he collects the silver dollars mostly
