Now go back and try a $3 bill
I remember the summer those came out, 1976 was it? Or fall 1975.
My cousin and I were in a jazz club in St. Pete (16th street and something around 22d ave N) and I put a $2 bill on the tray and the barmaid brought me change for a $20.
Paid our tab after another pitcher with miscellaneous change, got another pitcher and put a $2 bill on the tray.
Same change for a $20. Left a $2 tip for the barmaid and GTFO there.
Same thing happened several other places... for about a week.
Yeah, young and stupid, I went in the Army in ‘76.
FTA.
Seems like I read that nationally chartered banks are required to have $2 bills on hand. They’re there for the asking.
I recently found a $7.34 dollar bill.
I think the $2 bill is a lot less fake than our commander and dumbass in the WH. And worth more too. IMO
Years ago whilst paying for a pair of shoes a cashier opted to challenge me using the various Dollar coins. I told her I’d have Treasury on the line if she refused to take my monies. She called her Store Manager, who I could hear tell her in no uncertain words to take my monies. LOL
When I shop or tip I prefer to use cash and enjoy using the $2 bills. There are many waitstaff who have started to save the $2 because they simply like the way they look. I told them that’s a great idea because when you get to a point where you really need to get your piggy bank out you’ll have funds.
Years ago my husband used a Kennedy .50 piece and it took a McDonalds Manager to tell the drive-through cashier to take the money. This was not actually just years ago; it was actually decades. LOL
Still, amazing how so many folks cannot recognize legitimate monies.
My local bank branch holds all their funny money for me and I buy it up every week or two. I’ve got thousands of $2 bills and Susan B Anthony coins. Kinda became a hobby.
I went skydiving a few times in Coolidge, AZ and the first time all my 10 dollar change was 5 two dollar bills.
The charge was 100 bucks -10 for the military discount.
I still have them. :^)
F’n moron is too moronic to Google a question on their smart phone; “is there a two dollar bill?”
I did a few weeks ago. Had some.
I found a Sacajawea coin in the kitchen junk drawer the other day. I’ll try to remember to use it next time i’m out and see what happens.
When the $2 bills came out most of the stores around me didn’t want to take them because they didn’t have an extra slot in the cash register for them.
Yeah, but if you had simply walked out without paying, you’d be OK.
What an upside down world.
I think there were more $2 bill in Germany than statewide. GIs got paid with $2 bills. They were made to show that the GIs contributed to the economy. I had a batch of them in Germany in the early 80’s. When I was a kid in the 40’s they were all over the place, no big deal back then.
One of the earlier stories I recall on the then-newfangled thing called the Internet (probably Usenet) was entitled “I Want My Two Dollars Back” about a guy who went to Taco Bell at a mall and used a $2 bill to pay for his meal to go.
The cashier thought it was fake, “We don’t take those”, “Do you want me to call security” etc. Much hilarity ensued. I would bet “I Want My $2 Back” is still archived somewhere on the Web today, though I’m too lazy to look.
Another guy allowed that he would obtain a fresh crisp stack of brand new $2 bills with sequential serial #s and then carefully glue them into an empty checkbook holder. He’d make a show of carefully tearing them out just like personal checks at the grocery, bewildering those standing in line behind him.
Steve Wozniak (the co-founder of Apple) likes to buy sheets of uncut $2 bills from the U.S. Treasury. When he has to pay something, he takes out a sheet, and cuts a bill off with a scissors. Sometimes he gets called in. Of course it gets cleared up. Rich guys having silly fun.
Lost all my money but a two dollar bill
a two dollar bill, a two dollar bill
Lost all my money but a two dollar bill
And I’m on my long journey home.
There was an article a couple years ago where a dumbass “SKOOL TEECHER” who l called the cops on a little girl who tried to pay for her school lunch with a two dollar bill. A school teacher! Yikes! No wonder they can’t tell a child’s gender anymore.
Nowadays, 3s and 9s are more common. Normally only used in Key West, they are becoming more popular.
I ran into this several times over the years fact when I was younger and a little more mischievous I used to take my paycheck and Susan B Anthony’s and two dollar bills