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Post by mztfied on Jul 13, 2014 21:32:20 GMT
When my grand children were young I would always send them their birthday $ in $2 bills. Great memories now that they are all grown up. I had one left in my drawer which has been sitting there for years so thought I would like to get rid of it. Can you imagine the look in the cashier at Mc donalds when I handed her the $2 bill. Priceless!!
Reminded me of this story:
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'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, '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.
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Post by marianne on Jul 13, 2014 21:37:34 GMT
lol - sad state of affairs, isn't it?
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Post by cab919 on Jul 13, 2014 21:38:34 GMT
That story is funny!
I still have three $2 bills (now that I think of it, I'm not sure where put them). My uncle Bob would give us $2 bills for our birthday when we were little.
I have shown them to my DDs (ages 16 and 11 now) so if the above story would happen to them, I would hope they would remember I had some and that it is legal tender.
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Post by Eddie-n-Harley on Jul 13, 2014 21:42:34 GMT
Ha. I actually see them in the Starbucks' tip jar all the time.
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Post by beachbum on Jul 13, 2014 21:43:09 GMT
I paid for a $4 and change purchase with a $2 bill and 3 dollar coins. Poor cashier didn't know where to put them in the drawer, once she had looked them over about 17 times and decided they were real money.
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Post by tracylynn on Jul 13, 2014 21:45:40 GMT
I have some $2 bills as well! I don't think I would expect the younger generation to know about $2 bills since they aren't really in circulation any longer.
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Post by anxiousmom on Jul 13, 2014 21:48:56 GMT
One of my favorite memories involves a $2 bill and a dime. My grandfather, whom I adored, gave me one of each when I first started dating. He said, stick this in your wallet and you will always have the means to take care of yourself if you end up on a "bad date."
My mom was one of three daughters, so he had already been through all the dating woes, marriages, divorces and children of those daughters. He wanted to make sure that if I was ever stuck and a boy "was doing me wrong" I had a least enough to make a phone call (pay phones were a dime then) to get someone to pick me up and the bill just in case the dime wasn't enough.
To this day, I still have that $2 bill in my wallet, the dime long gone. I have been so poor that I have thought about spending it, but every time I look at it, I remember my grandfather telling me that I should always keep it "just in case," so I do. Through 30 plus years of wallet changes, that bill has been placed behind my driver's license each and every time.
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Post by njinkerbelle on Jul 13, 2014 21:55:16 GMT
One of my favorite memories involves a $2 bill and a dime. My grandfather, whom I adored, gave me one of each when I first started dating. He said, stick this in your wallet and you will always have the means to take care of yourself if you end up on a "bad date." My mom was one of three daughters, so he had already been through all the dating woes, marriages, divorces and children of those daughters. He wanted to make sure that if I was ever stuck and a boy "was doing me wrong" I had a least enough to make a phone call (pay phones were a dime then) to get someone to pick me up and the bill just in case the dime wasn't enough. To this day, I still have that $2 bill in my wallet, the dime long gone. I have been so poor that I have thought about spending it, but every time I look at it, I remember my grandfather telling me that I should always keep it "just in case," so I do. Through 30 plus years of wallet changes, that bill has been placed behind my driver's license each and every time. Great story!
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Post by jayfab on Jul 13, 2014 22:03:11 GMT
One of my favorite memories involves a $2 bill and a dime. My grandfather, whom I adored, gave me one of each when I first started dating. He said, stick this in your wallet and you will always have the means to take care of yourself if you end up on a "bad date." My mom was one of three daughters, so he had already been through all the dating woes, marriages, divorces and children of those daughters. He wanted to make sure that if I was ever stuck and a boy "was doing me wrong" I had a least enough to make a phone call (pay phones were a dime then) to get someone to pick me up and the bill just in case the dime wasn't enough. To this day, I still have that $2 bill in my wallet, the dime long gone. I have been so poor that I have thought about spending it, but every time I look at it, I remember my grandfather telling me that I should always keep it "just in case," so I do. Through 30 plus years of wallet changes, that bill has been placed behind my driver's license each and every time. Awww, sweet story!
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Post by chaosisapony on Jul 13, 2014 22:03:28 GMT
I am 30 and $2 bills weren't really in circulation when I was a kid. You'd see one occasionally and my friends and I would think they were cool. I don't get why the younger generation wouldn't know about them now. Is it just because most people no longer carry any cash at all so they are less likely to ever see them?
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Post by magentapea on Jul 13, 2014 22:07:08 GMT
I went to a restaurant a few years ago with my kids. This elderly gentleman came up to the table and handed a $2 bill to each of my kids. When he left, the waitress said that the guy is very wealthy and sits in that restaurant every week handing out $2 bills to each child he sees.
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Post by Miss Ang on Jul 13, 2014 22:09:42 GMT
My grandma gave me a $2 when I was at the age that I started carrying a purse when we went shopping. She gave me a $2 bill and told me to always keep it in my wallet and I would never be broke. My grandma passed away when I was 14. I am now 42 and I still have that $2 bill tucked inside my wallet. A bad story, but with a good ending: My purse was stolen out of my car once and I was most upset about that $2 bill. Several months later I received a phone call that my drivers license had been found in a field about 10 miles away from where it had been stolen (I had already gotten mine replaced). A week or so after that I received a call that my wallet was found in a neighboring area and my purse a few blocks further away. A police officer dropped off my purse, wallet and license at my house. All the money was gone except the $2 bill! Luckily, I have always kept it tucked into an inside pocket and they must not have bothered to look in there.
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Post by kadeej on Jul 13, 2014 22:16:18 GMT
Way back when during my college years Iowa State was invited to the Peach Bowl in Atlanta. A few weeks before the game an Atlanta journalist wrote a story basically making fun of the Iowa farmers being out of their comfort zone in the big city and commented that they would probably pay for everything with $2 bills. I am pretty sure the fans who went to the game (and that was a lot of us) cleaned out every bank in Iowa of their $2 Bill supply. We "country bumpkins" did pay for everything with that legal tender, thanks to that silly reporter
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Post by garcia5050 on Jul 13, 2014 22:19:54 GMT
My grandma gave me a $2 when I was at the age that I started carrying a purse when we went shopping. She gave me a $2 bill and told me to always keep it in my wallet and I would never be broke. I also keep a $2 in my wallet at all times, for this reason. I'm not super-superstitious, but it couldn't hurt? I'm glad you got your bill back. I use my bill probably every other year, and have never had an issue with it. I actually used it last week. This thread just reminded me that I need to replace it.
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Post by stephofalltrades on Jul 13, 2014 22:21:08 GMT
When I worked as a bank teller, a local strip club only gave change in $2 bills, so the dancers would get double the tips. There were quite a few of them in circulation in our area, anytime someone pulled one out of their wallet they got a raised eyebrow.
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Post by marianne on Jul 13, 2014 22:22:02 GMT
@miss Ang - what a great story... glad you still have your grandma's $2.
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Post by mightyme on Jul 13, 2014 22:22:04 GMT
Must be me. But i think its more funny you think people would be irritated to break a fifty. Even in a small town fast food. Its no biggie. Do people not take fifties for small amounts?
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Post by papersilly on Jul 13, 2014 22:25:41 GMT
Just today DH was askng me why i kept $2 bills in my wallet. They are crisp and new. I dont why i have them. Someone gave me 5 of them and i used 2 already. I guess i like the novelty of them.
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Post by mztfied on Jul 13, 2014 22:28:53 GMT
Here is a story my folks always told:
It seems that during WW2 the city of San Diego was afloat with those pesky young sailors all on leave and looking for action. Many of the locals began to complain about them. Well this was/is after all a Navy Town. So the Admiral decided to make his point. At that time the men were paid in cash. The pay masters were instructed to pay all enlisted men with $2 bills. It did not take long til the wide scope of how the Navy pay greased this economy became clear to all. The Admiral made his point very clearly.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2014 22:32:43 GMT
Thankfully, my kids know they're real. I don't know how many of their classmates do though.
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Post by marmargirl on Jul 13, 2014 22:38:53 GMT
I love all those $2 bill stories! Particularly the effectiveness of the Navy Admiral's point. I hope that kids in elementary school are at least being taught that these bills exist. I remember learning about them way back when.
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Post by darkchami on Jul 13, 2014 22:42:22 GMT
When I worked in retail I always bought the $2 bills from my register. My mom has collected them for as long as I remember. I often wonder how many there are still in circulation.
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Post by caangel on Jul 13, 2014 22:48:19 GMT
Must be me. But i think its more funny you think people would be irritated to break a fifty. Even in a small town fast food. Its no biggie. Do people not take fifties for small amounts? Around here a lot of the fast food places have signs that say they don't accept bills over $20. My grandma told me to keep a $2 bill in your wallet for good luck. Mine is tucked under my DL also. My uncle gave me one that is dated either early 1900s or late 1800s and I still have it. I;m in my mid 30s. ca angel
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Post by Zee on Jul 13, 2014 22:50:03 GMT
I have one tucked away in a purse I rarely use. I keep it for sentimental reasons.
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Post by gale w on Jul 13, 2014 22:51:59 GMT
LOL! We have a few lying around. My mom always said it's bad luck to give a purse or wallet without putting money in it so whenever I gave dh a wallet (as a gift) I would put a couple of two dollar bills in it.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2014 23:05:58 GMT
I recently got a $2 bill as part of my change at the local Farmers Market. My DSO (who moved to the US in his twenties) had only heard about the bills and thought they were an urban legend. He was so fascinated with the bill that I let him keep it, lol.
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Post by ~KellyAnn~ on Jul 13, 2014 23:16:17 GMT
For as long as I can remember, my parents liked to give out $2 bills with their tip. The local bank tellers would keep some in their drawers for them. The ladies still do this for my dad. When dd and I cashed in our change jar for our trip to Mexico, I asked that some of the bills be singles for tipping. The teller also gave me three $2 bills and said that the locals love them, as they are thought to be lucky. Then she said, "don't tell your dad I gave you his stash of $2 bills!"
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Post by miss_lizzie on Jul 13, 2014 23:23:29 GMT
I love $2 bills and dollar coins and keep them every time I get one.
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Post by cynipidae17 on Jul 13, 2014 23:34:19 GMT
I got a two dollar bill from an older lady for something she purchased at my garage sale. Maybe she was testing me...
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Post by MommyofTriplets on Jul 13, 2014 23:36:06 GMT
My grandmother always gave me $2 bills and I've saved a bunch of them. They always remind me of her.
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