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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