North Dakota, you say?

Chris Flynn


>From: "Roach, Bill J." <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Records Management Program <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: OT: $2 Bill
>Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 20:55:54 -0600
>
>Forgive me, but I have to share this.  If something strange happens, it
>happens to my brother Mike who lives in Minnesota.  Here is the latest
>from Tuesday, January 2nd:
>
>
>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 $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."
>
>
>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?"
>Me:  "No really, tell me why."
>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."
>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?"
>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.
>
>Just think ... those two probably voted!!!
>
>
>
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