[SOC] Fw: The $2.00 Bill

[Bob Roske]

Wow, to bad this manager isn't a Ham he'd be a prime candidate for SOC.

73,
Bob N0UF
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Brown" <drsm0ke00 at gmail.com>
To: <KCDXC-for-fun at crcltd.com>
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 10:54 PM
Subject: The $2.00 Bill


> Now this is funny. It would be even more hilarious if it were not so 
> pathetic.
>
> Subject:The $2.00 Bill
>
>
>
> THE $2.00 BILL
> IF YOU'RE AS OLD AS I AM - THIS IS A RIOT!
>
> 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 even know
> they exist.
>
> 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.'
> &nbs p;
> 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 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.
> 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 will be voting 
> soon............................YIKES!!!
>
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> --
> Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil. Thomas Mann
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