Two Dollar Bill

[hammondc]

I need some $2 bills. Do banks still keep them?

LMAO! I know I've got a bunch somewhere. My grandma used to give them to all the grandkids for Valentine's Day. Always thought they were cool.

But I have heard that it's bad luck if you spend them. Hope you didn't get food poisoning. LOL

[BlkDrew]

Originally Posted by hammondc

I need some $2 bills. Do banks still keep them?

I believe most banks have them, you just have to ask.

I was also just sharing the story, it was not my personal experience, although I am about to hit up the dollar menu and see what happens.

[Cigar Mike]

Originally Posted by hammondc

I need some $2 bills. Do banks still keep them?

It's up to the bank. Back home the local branch I used got used to me coming in every few weeks and buying out all their $2s. Usually it was about $30 worth. I'd use them around town for small purchases, at the coffee shop, tips, farmer's markets, etc. Good conversation starter.

They eventually got used to me asking and I didn't get funny looks all the time after a while. The tellers would end up trading them all into one drawer and they'd tell me which teller to go to when they saw me coming.

I never had any trouble spending them, though. I did have one old guy see me put one in the tip jar at his sandwich shop and he darn near killed himself jumping around out of the kitchen to get his hands on it he was so excited...

[Sauer Grapes]

BTW, according to snopes this story is fake... However, I remember a true story that is similar that happened a few years ago in Baltimore.

http://www.wnd.com/2005/04/29732/

I'm guessing this story is loosely based on the Baltimore story.

[Vorb]

The original story was from a post on USENET in 1993. The Baltimore
story is from 2005.

I don't think we need to be too concerned about weeping for the future
(well, any more than any other day).

Think about it: if this TB employee was some HS kid, say 18, he's
37 years old now.

We need a toco bell or $2 bill smiley !

[Sauer Grapes]

Originally Posted by hammondc

I need some $2 bills. Do banks still keep them?

They do indeed. I live like four blocks from two different branches of my bank and I just picked up 50 of them. I'm going to enjoy spending them.

The bank also stated they can order a strap of them with a week or two of notice and that they keep straps of them around Christmas time. (a strap is 100 bills, so $200).

[Silound]

When I waited tables in college, I had a regular who always came to have a couple drinks. He was a regular traveler on toll roads, and he always carried $2 bills and Susan B's or Sacajawea's for toll booths that were self-service.

After he retired, he said he had something like $1500 in assorted unusual types of currency. We were laughing about it one day, and somehow that unusual currency became part of my regular tips.

I saved almost all of them, mostly for the novelty of keeping them. Now I've got a box full of it all in my safe as a memory.

[VTDragon]

Great story, even if it is a fake. I was going to say that there is a reason that the guy who didn't recognize the bill was working there. This is my wife's and my favorite line to each other when we encounter less than steler service.

[eber]

I had a cashier at walmart give me very weird looks when I tried to use up some $2 bills that I had lying around, she did take them but I guess she had never seen them before either.

[Subvet642]

""I put the bill up near his face, and he flinches like I'm taking a swing at him.""

Of course he's gonna flinch, he put his hands near the guard's face. In most places, that's assault. Also, did he think someone could focus on it that close? I'm a guard and that kinda sh!t happens to me all the time. At the very least, it's abusive.

[replicant_argent]

Originally Posted by Wanger

LMAO! I know I've got a bunch somewhere. My grandma used to give them to all the grandkids for Valentine's Day. Always thought they were cool.

But I have heard that it's bad luck if you spend them. Hope you didn't get food poisoning. LOL

Sounds like something a grandma might say to a kid to keep the kid from spending it. Are you sure she didn't add anything about cats stealing the souls and breath of babies while she was at it?

[bobarian]

Originally Posted by Subvet642

""I put the bill up near his face, and he flinches like I'm taking a swing at him.""

Of course he's gonna flinch, he put his hands near the guard's face. In most places, that's assault. Also, did he think someone could focus on it that close? I'm a guard and that kinda sh!t happens to me all the time. At the very least, it's abusive.

If the story was real this might make a difference.

[cjhalbrooks]

Just start to tell people that you are paying with Hawaiian money.

[Subvet642]

Originally Posted by bobarian

If the story was real this might make a difference.

If it's not, might it best be posted in "Jokes"?

[Brian D.]

Originally Posted by hammondc

I need some $2 bills. Do banks still keep them?

The Bill Goodman gun and knife shows in Cincinnati and Dayton charge $8 admission. Guess what they give you in change if you hand them a ten dollar bill? Yep, a ''Jefferson". The show promoter must keep some bank someplace on its toes since they have several shows around the midwest/south each month.

[elderboy02]

I love $2 bills. My dad used to give me and my brother $2 bills for our allowance when we were kids.

[elderboy02]

Originally Posted by Brian D.

The Bill Goodman gun and knife shows in Cincinnati and Dayton charge $8 admission. Guess what they give you in change if you hand them a ten dollar bill? Yep, a ''Jefferson"...

Probably because of the 2nd Amendment

[SteelCityBoy]

Man oh man is that good...

It just hurts me a bit because I am in "the business," QSR (quick service restaurants)that is not the fake money business. On top of the managers personal pride being damaged he would be looking for a new job so he could argue with customers and hurt someone else's business. That is intolerable to me. Ignorant or not...it's $2!!! I try and teach my people the value of a guest in our establishments and getting them to come back. There are very few times ( I can count them on one hand) in 15 yrs of being in the business that I can say a customer was wrong....and besides that THEY ARE STILL THE CUSTOMER and deserve to be treated with respect.

Anyway, before I get way too off topic, the employees ignorance, sad as it is I can get, but the manager too? Crazy....but funny store Drew!