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In article <4hrb4o$q89@news2.deltanet.com>,
Mark Panitz <mpanitz@delta1.deltanet.com> wrote:
>A friend gave me a $2.00 bill, I would like to know if this bill
>is good or is it a conterfiet bill, cause I never saw one before.
>is it valid or should I call the Secret Service and tell them
>about this bill from my so called friend, I just don't want to
>get arrested for having conuterfiet money on me
>any help will be appercaited
>thanks!

Well, not a flame, but... :-)

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Subject: Run in at "the Border"
From:    Justin Yung
Date:    2/23/96  11:08 AM

     
     A friend of mine, with - no doubt - far too much time on his hands, 
     came across this on the Taco Bell Web Page and sent it to me.  

:
:
:Taco Bell $2 Bill Incident
:
:On my way home from the second job I've taken for the extra holiday ca$h I 
:need, I stop at Taco Bell for a quick bite to eat. In my billfold is 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 people getting pissed at me for trying to break a large 
:bill.
:
:     ME: "Hi, I'd like one seven layer burrito please, to go." 
:     IT: "Is that it?"
:     ME: "Yep."
:     IT: "That'll be $1.04, eat here?"
:     ME: "No, it's to go." [I hate effort duplication.] 
:
:At this point I open my billfold and hand him the $2 bill. He looks at it 
:kind of funny and
:
:     IT: "Uh, hang on a sec, I'll be right back." 
:
:He goes to talk to his manager, who is still within earshot. The following 
:conversation occurs between the two of them.
:
:     IT: "Hey, you ever see a $2 bill?" 
:     MG: "No. A what?"
:     IT: "A $2 bill. This guy just gave it to me."
:     MG: "Ask for something else, there's no such thing as a $2 bill." [my 
:emp]
:     IT: "Yeah, thought so."
:
:He comes back to me and says
:
:     IT: "We don't take these. Do you have anything else?" 
:     ME: "Just this fifty. You don't take $2 bills? Why?" 
:     IT: "I don't know."
:     ME: "See here where it says legal tender?" 
:     IT: "Yeah."
:     ME: "So, shouldn't you take it?" 
:     IT: "Well, hang on a sec."
:
:He goes back to his manager who is watching me like I'm going to shoplift, 
:and
:
:     IT: "He says I have to take it."
:     MG: "Doesn't he have anything else?"
:     IT: "Yeah, a fifty. I'll get it and you can open the safe and get 
:change."
:     MG: "I'm not opening the safe with him in here." [my emp] 
:     IT: "What should I do?"
:     MG: "Tell him to come back later when he has real money." 
:     IT: "I can't tell him that, you tell him."
:     MG: "Just tell him."
:     IT: "No way, this is weird, I'm going in back." 
:
:The manager approaches me and says
:
:     MG: "Sorry, we don't take big bills this time of night." [it was 8pm 
:and this particular Taco Bell is in a well lighted indoor mall with 100
:     other stores.]
:     ME: "Well, here's a two."
:     MG: "We don't take those either." 
:     ME: "Why the hell not?"
:     MG: "I think you know why."
:     ME: "No really, tell me, why?"
:     MG: "Please leave before I call mall security." 
:     ME: "Excuse me?"
:     MG: "Please leave before I call mall security." 
:     ME: "What the hell for?"
:     MG: "Please, sir."
:     ME: "Uh, go ahead, call them."
:     MG: "Would you please just leave?" 
:     ME: "No."
:     MG: "Fine, have it your way then."
:     ME: "No, 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 and says [at the other end of counter, in a whisper]
:
:     SG: "Yeah, Mike, what's up?"
:     MG: "This guy is trying to give me some [pause] funny money." 
:     SG: "Really? What?"
:     MG: "Get this, a two dollar bill."
:     SG: "Why would a guy fake a $2 bill?" [incredulous]
:     MG: "I don't know? He's kinda weird. Says the only other thing he has 
:is a fifty."
:     SG: "So, the fifty's fake?"
:     MG: "No, the $2 is."
:     SG: "Why would he fake a $2 bill?"
:     MG: "I don't know. Can you talk to him, and get him out of here?" 
:     SG: "Yeah..."
:
:Security Guard walks over to me and says 
:
:     SG: "Mike here tells me you have some fake bills you're trying to 
:use."
:     ME: "Uh, no."
:     SG: "Lemme see 'em."
:     ME: "Why?"
:     SG: "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
:
:     ME: "I'm just trying to buy a burrito and pay for it with this $2 
: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
:
:     SG: "Mike, what's wrong with this bill?" 
:     MG: "It's fake."
:     SG: "It doesn't look fake to me." 
:     MG: "But it's a $2 bill."
:     SG: "Yeah?"
:     MG: "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.
:
:My burrito was free and he threw in a small drink and those cinnamon 
:things, too. Makes me want to get a whole stack of $2 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. At least you get free food.
:
:The End