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  • racefan20
    Major General

    • Jul 2005
    • 2335

    Everyone should carry them...

    Our friends from over seas may not relate to this, but I sure can. Got it in an email and thought I'd share:

    Many of today's youth are terribly challenged without a computer to tell them what to do!! The story is funny. Lack of education is not funny!!

    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 $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 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."

    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!

    God Bless America! Don't you just love it?
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  • navaldesign
    General & Forum Moderator

    • Oct 2005
    • 12080

    #2
    Re: Everyone should carry them...

    Do they take Euros?

    Thanks Racefan, every once in a while i relax a bit reading your posts here and realize i'm lucky.
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    • racefan20
      Major General

      • Jul 2005
      • 2335

      #3
      Re: Everyone should carry them...

      Originally posted by navaldesign
      Do they take Euros?

      Thanks Racefan, every once in a while i relax a bit reading your posts here and realize i'm lucky.
      Thanks, my friend, although I get the feeling you're telling me I'm full of poop. LOL
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      • navaldesign
        General & Forum Moderator

        • Oct 2005
        • 12080

        #4
        Re: Everyone should carry them...

        Not quite sure what that means. My english is not that good. I meant that i really enjoy your posts, both funny and serious ones.
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        • racefan20
          Major General

          • Jul 2005
          • 2335

          #5
          Re: Everyone should carry them...

          It was just a joke, my friend, I assure you of that. I'm glad you like the things I post.
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          • #6
            Re: Everyone should carry them...

            I take it that taco bell is run on the same line as McDonald's in which case it sounds par for the course is the 2 dollar bill a new bill very good anyway.

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            • Girlonthehill
              General

              • Oct 2005
              • 4193

              #7
              Re: Everyone should carry them...

              Oh Racefan. That's funny but terrible. Lol. It's like reading part of a story in a book - when all the time you're thinking - how can they write this rubbish... things don't happen like this....

              Oh deary me...

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              • racefan20
                Major General

                • Jul 2005
                • 2335

                #8
                Re: Everyone should carry them...

                Originally posted by ray2kc
                I take it that taco bell is run on the same line as McDonald's in which case it sounds par for the course is the 2 dollar bill a new bill very good anyway.
                No, the two dollar bill has been around for quite a few years now, but it's not a very common thing to see. It is common enough, however, that the idiots in that piece should have recognized it.
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                • racefan20
                  Major General

                  • Jul 2005
                  • 2335

                  #9
                  Re: Everyone should carry them...

                  Originally posted by Girlonthehill
                  Oh Racefan. That's funny but terrible. Lol. It's like reading part of a story in a book - when all the time you're thinking - how can they write this rubbish... things don't happen like this....

                  Oh deary me...
                  I work in retail management, Amanda, and I promise that I see this stuff everyday. I've seen some things that are so far out there's no way they could be made up. LOL
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                  • Oh_So_Licious
                    Private

                    • Mar 2006
                    • 2

                    #10
                    Re: Everyone should carry them...

                    That is so funny! Aren't 2 dollar bills hard to fing though? Where did you get that one?

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                    • kassi59
                      Major General

                      • Nov 2005
                      • 2771

                      #11
                      Re: Everyone should carry them...

                      Ive gotten them at the bank..or I used to get them while working in a major Grocery store as a register clerk also.

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                      • SChajin
                        Major General

                        • Jan 2006
                        • 2792

                        #12
                        Re: Everyone should carry them...

                        The really sad thing is watching most of these people count out change or try to figure how much to give you back on their own. Really bad!

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