"Hey Boss, what kind of coins are these?"

That should answer your question.

Be careful when you pay for stuff with the Sacagewea $1 "gold" coin as well, people don't seem to know it exists.

Did you hear about the one where the guy got taken into questioning by the Secret Service because the cashier and manager agreed that the patron's $2 Bills were not real.

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Get me the names of those people! My girlfriend could use a few more employees!

 

You probably could have told him it was worth $100!!!

 

Boycott Best Buy and tell all your friends. If any of yuo work for a newspaper, run a story or write a letter. What a joke.

 

I love $2 bills.

I use to give them to my kids but they asked me to quit and use $1s instead because of all the static they would get when they tried to spend them.

when I retre and have time to be a real pain, i think I'll carry $2s, Susan Bs and half dollars.

 

LOL! Reminds me of my days working as a doorman at a 4 star hotel.

Old coots would deliberately count out $2 bills, or Susan B's, just salivating for me to give him a funny look or ask him, "What's this?"

So I would throw him for a loop and gush on and on about how I think they're great and underused and unloved and and I love to see the looks on stupid cashiers faces when I try to spend them.

The old coots always smiled and agreed, but then walked away a little deflated that their "it spends just like real money" lecture couldn't be implemented.

 

I've toyed with the idea of trying to spend one of my less-than-perfect 1880ish Morgan dollars at Mcdonalds, but even a really bad one is still worth more than $1. My history lesson will have to wait..

FWIW, tipping adult entertainers with $2 bills really gets you a lot of attention.

C.

 

To be somewhat fair the first time I ever delt with a Kennedy half dollar was when I hit a blackjack at a casino. I knew what it was but still it was somewhat strange to see one. Otherwise I've only seen a Susan B Anthony Dollar in my brothers coin collection pouch. Its not like these two particular coins exist in any decent number anywhere outside the casinos anymore.

 

I worked at an In-N-Out burger while I was in college. I got the same question once from one of the kids that worked with me. These guys rained a piggy bank, and were paying for the burgers with the pennies. No big deal right? The idiots were paying with rare steel penny's. I asked them if they knew what they were paying with and they said yes and that they didn't care. I was happy to take a whole roll off of their hands. Me and a couple of guys split them.

 

My favorite bit is to take a stack of 50 brand new, crisp one dollar bills to a print shop and have them "pad up" the bills by putting a cardboard backing cut to size, and gluing across the top. Then peel them off in front of the girls.

 

And all that has what to do with the Cali. education system? Atleast have a convincing arguement when you come forward with a statement like that. The fact is most (not all) people who work fast food (past 20 years old) have reached the pinnacle of their carrers. Do you really think that they care what anyone has a problem with. I have been to fast food joints all over the world and any place that has been around a while has employees like this. So please keep the California bashing to threads where it is warranted.

 

Wouldn't it be fun to have a little plastic device that has a bunch of dollar bills rolled up in it, with 2 slots, one on each end? So you go to the cashier, take a blank piece of paper and crank it in one end and a second later a bill comes out the other!

 

Good one