>Email from my mom: (Also here: http://www.snopes.com/business/money/tacobell.asp) > >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 some thing 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." >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!!! >