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retiredintime
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Posted: Thu Aug 21st, 2008 01:49 pm | 1st Post |
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THE $2.00 BILL I TRIED TO SPEND:
IF YOU'RE AS OLD AS I AM, THIS IS A RIOT!
Everyone should start carrying $2 bills!
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 even 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 $104. 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 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 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.
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 soon
....YIKES!!!
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wingwarrior
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Posted: Thu Aug 21st, 2008 09:07 pm | 2nd Post |
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I belive it 
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redbaron
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Posted: Thu Aug 21st, 2008 10:53 pm | 3rd Post |
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I stopped in this little grocery store every morning to get a cup of coffee, a honey bun and some quarters for the toll bridge that afternoon...OK the girl behind the counter is as nervous as a cat on hot tin roof looking for a shady spot .....I at first thought maybe she had been robbed or worse that a robber was still there..... ....She leans over the counter and says in a hushed voice....."I'm in deep pookie" not exactly what she said but close enough....I whisper back "Why???"....She says "I think I just took some funny money from two kids in here earlier buying gas and stuff" I asked to see this "funny money", and much to my surprise and believe me my pleasure she had taken in about 50 bucks worth of ................Ya ready for this?????
Several $1 dollar bills, a couple of $5 dollar bills, and one $10 dollar bill .........Silver Certificates......along with a fist full of real Silver coins.......a couple of silver dollars dated 1908 and 1920, silver quarters , and durn near a roll of dimes and nickles........All dated before 1930......
I had more than enough in my pocket to cover the face value of the bills she had and change.......I told her I would just swap money with her to keep her boss off her back......The bill money alone is worth several hundred dollars or more, that didn't include the silver coins.....and I still have it......I did check with a buddy of mine that was a detective in that city to see if there had been any break-ins with old money missing.....Came back negative......Do I feel that I "cheated her???" nope because her boss would have not know and took it out of her salary and most likely trashed that money as being "funny money".........He wasn't very smart either.....
Claude......
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Posted: Thu Aug 21st, 2008 11:27 pm | 4th Post |
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Not a money story, but also related to generation issue.
About 6 years back, my daughter was 10 or 11 years old. We took her to the Henery Ford Museum in Dearborn Michigan. Showed her the old style black dial/rotery phone. She had no clue on how to use it. She just tried to put her fingers in the holes thinking thats how you dial them
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MDKramer
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Posted: Thu Aug 21st, 2008 11:56 pm | 5th Post |
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About 20 years ago I managed a small gas station and had a kid come in and pay for $30 worth of gas with two $20 Silver Certificates.
Gave him his change, pulled 2 fresh $20's out of my wallet, exchanged bill for bill...and RAN to a collector I knew after work.
He told me what I had to do to cash them in properly, and I netted around $450.
Mike
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Foodman
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Posted: Fri Aug 22nd, 2008 12:25 am | 6th Post |
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When I have my restaurant I would get $2.00 bills from the bank for fun..
I'd make change with them on younger people and some would argue that I was giving them funny money.. My waitress would come up while this was going on and tell me the printing press had run out of ink.. It was a lot of fun......
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scotthohio
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Posted: Fri Aug 22nd, 2008 03:30 am | 7th Post |
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I LOVE getting "funny" money. $2's and dollar coins are too fun. Had one guy at a drive thru almost mistake it for a $5.
Haven't had the pleasure of getting silver certificates yet... That would be the day to play the lottery...
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RonSena
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Posted: Fri Aug 22nd, 2008 12:06 pm | 8th Post |
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Redbaron,
My first thought was a theft too. The kids probably hit up their folks or grandparents coin colletion.
I collect coins and silver, at one time I had several Susan B Anthony coins stolen from my desk at home. Funny thing was there were several pure silver ingots that my family thief didn't take not knowing what they were. Those ingots were worth much more that the coins and now are worth even 3 times more.
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lostinflorida
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Posted: Sat Aug 23rd, 2008 07:57 pm | 9th Post |
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It's a sign of the times getting bad when the "good money" starts coming out. I don't get the chance to find much any more.
Got a couple old pennies on night in change and saw them right off. I went back in and asked for 50 cents worth of pennies from the register.
Ended up with 37 pennies from 1911 on up to the early 40's.
Just a week ago my daughter came home and handed me a nickle. Told me to put it up with the other stuff we've collected.
It was a V nickle that you couldn't read the date on.
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MDKramer
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Posted: Sat Aug 23rd, 2008 08:03 pm | 10th Post |
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Am I the only one who can actually hear the different tone of the rattle when the register drawer opens and asks the clerk "Care to sell me the 50 cent pieces/susan b's/sachajewia(or however you spell it) dollars you have over there"?
Mike
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Posted: Sat Aug 23rd, 2008 09:54 pm | 11th Post |
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Stopped at Subway on the way to work today.
Gave the young cashier 2 - $2 bills and a $1.
She looked at them and turned them over a couple of times, then got out the 'special' pen and marked all 3 bills.
I asked her if she hadn't seen one before and she said that she was just checking them.
Laughed all the way out the door....
I always ask for $2's when I go to the bank now.
THIS IS JUST TOO FUN !!!!!
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lostinflorida
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Posted: Sat Aug 23rd, 2008 11:06 pm | 12th Post |
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One of these days we'll end up with a president that will insist on us printing the $3.00 too.
You know, just to be politically correct.
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Posted: Sat Aug 23rd, 2008 11:15 pm | 13th Post |
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And to think I spent all that time counterfeiting all of them two dollar bills 
I would have wound up in jail without a doubt
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Posted: Sun Aug 24th, 2008 02:20 pm | 14th Post |
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| When I was younger a buddy and I decided to try and forge some $10 and $5 bills. His dad owned a printing shop and we convinced ourselves that we could do it. Living in a small town surely it couldn't be too hard to pass off some realistic looking bills. We snuck in to the shop and printed about 100 bills, and took off. half way to the farthest "convenience" store from our house that we thought we could pass them off at we realized that we had NOT printed $5 and $10 bills but $15 bills. Well blessed with a vernacular skill and a quick wit my buddy decides to try and cash one in thinking he could always play it off as a joke if the guy questions. He goes in hands the $15 bill to the clerk and asks for change. Without missing a beat the clerk as him "Would you like 5 $3 or 2 $6 and a $3................
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Posted: Sun Aug 24th, 2008 02:37 pm | 15th Post |
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I am not surprised by this at all.
I coin roll hunted for years, searching bank rolls of coins for silver and rarities.
And would spend halves and $2 bills around town to get things cerculated and the looks of younger folks was always priceless to me.
My son loved my CRH couse we bought him a new car for his 16th birthday from the silver profits back then.
haven't did it latley due to gas prices but I do know the sound of silver in a drawer or when it hits the counter
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Posted: Sun Aug 24th, 2008 04:26 pm | 16th Post |
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mi2az wrote: Not a money story, but also related to generation issue.
About 6 years back, my daughter was 10 or 11 years old. We took her to the Henery Ford Museum in Dearborn Michigan. Showed her the old style black dial/rotery phone. She had no clue on how to use it. She just tried to put her fingers in the holes thinking thats how you dial them
totally off subject........
sorry.........I get anal about ages and times and stuff........
but that would make your daughter what.........about 14 now......right????
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