Fun Story About $2 Bills

[NuggetWarmer]

The $2 Bill. Everyone should start carrying them!

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."

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.


Source: http://www.whatistruth.info/silly1/7.html

[Llama Juice]

tl;dr

My dad bought a bunch of new $2 bills from the bank a while ago... so the bills were all sequentially ordered and never folded or anything...

He then took two dollar sized pieces of cardboard and placed them on both sides of the stack of bills. Put some clips on it to hold it all in place and then put rubber cement along the top of the bills.

Basically made a $2 bill checkbook type thing. He would use em to mess with waitresses and stuff. When he'd pull out his pad of $2 and they'd freak out saying that they're fake and stuff. Good times.

EDIT: I read it, I lol'd

People are idiots.

[NuggetWarmer]

I'm going to start buying stuff with $2 bills now. :D Good thing I have a lot because my grandfather was a money collector.

[SnaFuBAR]

i have a 2 dollar bill with red ink on it. totally legit, too. I've got all kinds of rare money.

[itszutak]

I have a bill from when they printed color on them, same as Snaf's generation. I keep it on my desk :3

[flibitijibibo]

I feel like going to my old job and seeing how quickly the manager will tell me to leave when I use a $2. He'd never get it.

[FluffyDucky™]

OMG THAT'S GOLD AHAHAHAHA

[king_nothing_]

I've heard stories like this before. I'm tempted to start using $2 bills just to see if I can find someone dumb enough to think it's not real. God that would be hilarious. Effing morons.

[Con]

I'm tempted to use them too, but I also don't want to give up a 2 dollar bill.

[The_Wraith]

I only have one and as funny as it would be to try and spend it, I don't want to. :|

I've had it since I was like 5. In fact I think it was the first money I ever had.

Snaf does it look like this?
http://www.shadowflareindustries.com/images/2dollar.jpg
I have the same one but I thought all $2 bills looked like this.

[p0lar_bear]

My mother actually used to get them a lot at a gas station she worked at. Ended up spending them all a long time ago on various things.

This story is comedy gold though.

[king_nothing_]

I'm tempted to use them too, but I also don't want to give up a 2 dollar bill.
Most $2 bills don't have any collector's value and aren't worth more than their face value (the exception being ones with a red seal and other old versions). They still print them and you can usually request them at a bank. If people would stop hoarding as if they're so special, they'd go into circulation better.

[n00b1n8R]

Most $2 bills don't have any collector's value and aren't worth more than their face value (the exception being ones with a red seal and other old versions). They still print them and you can usually request them at a bank. If people would stop hoarding as if they're so special, they'd go into circulation better.
He's keeping it for sentimental value. >_>

In related news:
http://www.dkimages.com/discover/previews/772/514699.JPG

MADNESS :woop:

[Bodzilla]

LOL

[DaneO'Roo]

Pfft 2 dollar coins in australia are like the handiest things since...whatever. They own.

A 2 dollar bill would be madness.

[Bodzilla]

Madness?

[LinkandKvel]

THIS IS MODACITY!!!! [/bad joke]

[thehoodedsmack]

We've got 2 dollar coins in Canada, and they're used as often as quarters. I'm fairly sure we've got 2 dollar bills as well, but I don't see them a lot. That was one funny story, though.

[TeeKup]

THAT WAS EPIC.

[Con]

We've got 2 dollar coins in Canada, and they're used as often as quarters. I'm fairly sure we've got 2 dollar bills as well, but I don't see them a lot. That was one funny story, though.
long live the toonie!

[Kornman00]

2euro coins too

god i despise the conversion rate :phonegonk:

[jcap]

Steve Wozniak does something similar to this all the time. I think I recall his stories where he not only makes checkbooks out of the $2 bills, but he puts in special orders for them to have unique serial numbers. His $2 bills have the same digits at the beginning and the end of the number, with only the middle digits changed. It's to give the illusion that at a quick glance, the serial numbers all look the same.

A 02357908 A

A 02359908 A

A 02367908 A

etc.

[Zeph]

I used a 2 dollar bill to buy lunch at high school once. Just about got OSS for it.

[Limited]

Lol.

Over here I think theres a £5. They said they had made some, but I've never EVER seen one, and no one else I talk to has, so when I see one I'll freak.

[Llama Juice]

Well that's like when I was working at a gas station and the new tens came out... I gave one of em back to this guy as change and he wouldn't accept it. He said he doesn't take "funny money"

Likewise... some old lady tried giving me a plastic quarter once at that gas station.

[The_Wraith]

Once when I got change from Del Taco, I got an Egyptian coin of some sort and a Haitian one. Don't ask me what the odds are...

[Heathen]

Ya, I read this a long time ago. I lol'd.

[Mass]

The sad thing is that these things get more useful daily with inflation. I remember when burgers, pop, and ice cream were a dollar flat, now everything is some arbitrary value (like $3.37) meticulously set by corporate extortionistsengineers.

[Apoc4lypse]

that was a gr8 story, made me laugh, but yeah I think I/We have 2 of these... somewhere idk.

But with what you said, I agree... makes 2 dollar bills almost seem more convenient nowadays when stuff that should cost less then a buck decides to cost either more or less then 2 dollars...

[Kornman00]

I used a 2 dollar bill to buy lunch at high school once. Just about got OSS for it.
How :raise:?

[TheGhost]

I have an uncut sheet of two dollars bills, it's a set of 4 of them. So I guess it's kind of like an 8 dollar bill.

[Zeph]

How :raise:?

idiot lunch lady thought I was trying to give her fake money, so she signaled the school's cop over to take me downstairs to the office. She told him I was using fake money and they didn't give me a chance to explain myself. Of course the cop figured I was some idiot fucktard and was as rough as possible while telling me it was a felony and how much time I'd be spending in jail without parole and such. Luckily, the only principal in was a good friend of the band and theatre programs; which I was in. He knew me pretty well and was pretty cool (he went as a chaperon on our state theatre trip and stopped at a McDonalds in Nashville for us to play in the playground. He told me that if I did I'd get OSS and possibly be held back with the whole jail thing and all. After asking my story, he couldn't help but laugh and told me he was about to go to lunch. He told me to go get my stuff and act like I was in trouble so I'd miss class.

Yeah, if I was taken to the strict as fuck guy, he probably would have had the officer take me downtown to holding without asking questions.

[Pooky]

The sad thing is that these things get more useful daily with inflation. I remember when burgers, pop, and ice cream were a dollar flat, now everything is some arbitrary value (like $3.37) meticulously set by corporate extortionistsengineers.
SERIOUSLY. There was this one day where I wanted nothing more than some Fig Newtons, so I go to the store and find a pack of them for motherfucking $2.07. I had 2 bucks. WHAT THE SHIT.

[p0lar_bear]

(awesome story involving two people with common sense in a sea of morons)

Zeph and the $2 Bill Escape From Guantanamo Bay?

[Zeph]

SERIOUSLY. There was this one day where I wanted nothing more than some Fig Newtons, so I go to the store and find a pack of them for motherfucking $2.07. I had 2 bucks. WHAT THE SHIT.

I'm sorry, but I dont understand. If you had a two dollar bill in your wallet instead of two one dollar bills, you'd still be seven cents short.

[n00b1n8R]

Did you even read the post he quoted? He was referring to the stupid and ultra-precise price of "$2.07" exactly. Who the hell comes up with these numbers? Can't they just forsake a little profit and round it to a nice even number?

[Terin]

Taxes would still fuck it up. Yay for the economy.

[Timo]

Everything here is rounded to the nearest 10c.

...the school's cop over...
Wow, you have a cop full time at your school? o_O

[Pooky]

Taxes would still fuck it up. Yay for the economy.


Probably but still. What the hell's the point of stapling a few extra cents onto the price? (Besides I was expecting something more like 1.50, those things have gotten more expensive :()

[Zeph]

Did you even read the post he quoted? He was referring to the stupid and ultra-precise price of "$2.07" exactly. Who the hell comes up with these numbers? Can't they just forsake a little profit and round it to a nice even number?

Basic economics says no. And yes, I read the post.


Everything here is rounded to the nearest 10c.

Wow, you have a cop full time at your school? o_O

The school had 1900 kids at the time. It's well over 2100 by now. Full time cops are also becoming more prevalent in American cities.


Probably but still. What the hell's the point of stapling a few extra cents onto the price? (Besides I was expecting something more like 1.50, those things have gotten more expensive :()

The price of anything consists of a sum of its parts and services to get to you. On top of that, the store you buy it from needs to add on to the price to cover its costs of operation and to help build a liquid overhead. Gas prices climb, so they add on to the price of a truckload to cover the cost. That cost gets split up amongst everything inside. It might not seem like much, but do remember that the item you buy might have literally traveled across the country. The same principle applies to the machinery that made the item, the people working at the factory, and so forth.

Prices being one cent under the next dollar value have become an old idea and people don't pay much attention to them anymore. If you're wanting a nice rounded price, I'm sure the store would gladly raise the price to 2.25 USD or even all the way up to three dollars.

[The_Wraith]

Yeah I had 4 cops at my high school.

[Timo]

I guess that makes sense, 1900 students is crazy - my high school only has around 800.

[TeeKup]

I guess that makes sense, 1900 students is crazy - my high school only has around 800.

Fort Mill High had 2500 until half got sent to Nations Ford High. :haw:

[n00b1n8R]

We have a cop in on Tuesdays and Thursdays for the first half of the day.

700 students. :awesome:

[Bodzilla]

We have a cop in on Tuesdays and Thursdays for the first half of the day.

700 students. :awesome:
Bout the same.

bout 80 or so year 12's, and buy we had some fun :D

^___^

[flibitijibibo]

Approx 1300 students and 1 cop here. It's funny, a lot of the students talk to him on a regular basis, he's a pretty cool guy.

On the topic's subject, I feel this would make a great senior prank. If I could recruit a bunch of people to get some 2's, we could pay with them at some event to see what happens. Depending on who it is, they'll either be laughing to death or will be confused out of their mind.

[Bodzilla]

toot tone?

XbpEQbvskGg

[Pooky]

My school had over 4000 and only 3 cops :awesome:

[itszutak]

1500 students and 4-7 cops, I haven't really kept count..

Still doesn't stop students spraying swastikas, "god hates fags", "fuk all gays", and biblical quotes all over the school campus.
I think we have a full-time painter at this school.

[Bodzilla]

lol.....

[Mass]

my school has 700 kids and a security guard, and a cop some days.

That's pretty good considering we're literally in downtown Chicago.

The security guard is also a part time pro wrestler :awesome:

[Mass]

Basic economics says no. And yes, I read the post.

This is true.

However it's less about the actual cost of production and shipping as it is doing research to see just how much overcharging is permissible in the mind of the consumer.