Ever time I go to the bank I get a bunch of those plus the coin dollars, Susan B Anthony, Sacagawea, and the Presidential editions. The kids have not a clue what they are.
About 30 years ago I had a cashier call the store manager on me for a $2 bill. The manager too one look at it an laughed. I thought it was pretty funny too. The cashier did not.
How many £10 notes have you gotten.
Hooboy...just waiting for the day one of those little s*its confiscates my money at the register because *they* think it’s counterfeit.
During the Great Recession, a lot of Kennedy halves were being spent at the grocery stores. I’d glance into the till when I was checking out. Pretty easy to catch the sight of silver. I’d generally just ask for all of the halves. One kid picked up a Franklin half, looked at it, and said “That’s a funny color.”
I used to be a cashier and the procedure we used was to simply refuse any money that we thought were fake and that was the end of the matter. I have a right to refuse the method of payment and demand an acceptable form of payment. A lot of people with fake money will use the implied threat of violence if we claimed it was fake.
A business can limit what they take as a form of payment, this is not illegal to do so.
Without electronic cash registers showing the amount of change to refund, today’s youth couldn’t make correct change.
I remember in the 70s stores had automatic coin change machines.
It’s been decades since I’ve carried cash. Use my debit card for everything. If they don’t accept debit cards, I don’t do business there.
A few years back I got a thousand dollars in travelers checks for a trip to Saigon, Vietnam. Went to an official money exchange for Dongs and Dollars.
On the way out I stopped quickly and said “Wait! Is this US dollars?”
“Well yeah” said my Vietnamese friend who’s never been outside his country.”You don’t know your own currency?” my friend laughed.
“Yeah but the heads are bigger on these. The dollars I use have smaller heads”
“Oh that’s the old dollars these are the new ones he said
“Wow! I’ve never seen these ones”
“That’s because you use too much the card” he said.
I would give those cashiers two dollars for every silver certificate one dollar or any other bills they deem fake.
the Seneca Lodge here uses two dollar bills so we see them all the time, but, i’ve had cashiers give me crap about them out of the area
I worked grocery stores for 9+ years, from bagging to co-manager.
As a front-end supervisor, I *MADE* all my cashiers face their money, either at turn in, or when I trained them in cashier/checker school.
Made it SO much easier to count at the end of the day.
I was at a drive-in window of a fast-food restaurant. The bill was something like $11.27. I gave the young feller a $5 bill, four $1 bills, 9 quarters, and two pennies.
He spread the money out on the counter and stared at it for a good five minutes. I was amused, but I finally told him that was the correct amount.
He said, “Thanks, man!”. I went to the next window to get my food.
The UK. They’ve always had funny money.
I use cash as much as possible and many young cashiers are unable to count change either when I give it to them or when they need to give me change back.
They have terrible math skills and are are not used to the different coins, sometimes counting nickels as quarters and vice versa.
Plus, many can’t spell nor can they read cursive.
All by design. BTW, whatever happened to that crap CORE garbage?
I'll bet most Gen Z'ers balk at the thought of handling cash at all these days. They want: "Tap your card, and get out of my face so I can go back to my phone!"
My dad does that a lot with the $2 bills. It’s lots of fun watching their poor little brains short-circuit when spending them.
The idiots here in the US had someone arrested over a $2 bill.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2016/05/04/police-called-after-student-tries-to-buy-lunch-with-2-bill/
I used the Susan B Anthony coin to pull a trick on the Delaware Turnpike toll collector. I pulled up, handed the SBA to her and took off real fast. I could here her yell HEY!!! I knew she was going to think it was a quarter.