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!!! > > > >List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html >Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance _________________________________________________________________ Find sales, coupons, and free shipping, all in one place! MSN Shopping Sales & Deals http://shopping.msn.com/content/shp/?ctid=198,ptnrid=176,ptnrdata=200639 List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance