Whats the deal with the $2 bill?

[CECAA850]

I've got a 5 galon bucket about 3/4 full of pennies at home. You've given me some ideas.

[merkin]

As some comedian said the 2 dollar bill works great in strip clubs. the dancer thinks it is a $20.00 and by the time she realizes it then she thinks there is something peculiar about you.

[djk]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNgQKXYT58o

A man trying to pay a fee using $2 bills was arrested, handcuffed and
taken to jail after clerks at a Best Buy store questioned the currency’s
legitimacy and called police.

According to an account in the Baltimore Sun, 57-year-old Mike Bolesta
was shocked to find himself taken to the Baltimore County lockup in
Cockeysville, Md., where he was handcuffed to a pole for three hours
while the U.S. Secret Service was called to weigh in on the case.
Bolesta told
the Sun: “I am 6 feet 5 inches tall, and I felt like 8 inches high. To
be handcuffed, to have all those people looking on, to be cuffed to a
pole
– and to know you haven’t done anything wrong. And me, with a brother,
Joe, who spent 33 years on the city police force. It was humiliating.”




After Best Buy personnel reportedly told Bolesta he would not be
charged for the installation of a stereo in his son’s car, he received a
call from
the store saying it was in fact charging him the fee. As a means of
protest, Bolesta decided to pay the $114 bill using 57 crisp, new $2
bills. As
the owner of Capital City Student Tours, the Baltimore resident has a
hearty supply of the uncommon currency. He often gives the bills to
students who
take his tours for meal money. “The kids don’t see that many $2 bills,
so they think this is the greatest thing in the world,” Bolesta says.
“They don’t want to spend ‘em. They want to save ‘em. I’ve been doing
this since I started the company. So I’m thinking, ‘I’ll stage
my little comic protest. I’ll pay the $114 with $2 bills.’”



Bolesta explained what happened when he presented the bills to the cashier at Best Buy Feb. 20.



“She looked at the $2 bills and told me, ‘I don’t have to take these if I
don’t want to.’ I said, ‘If you don’t, I’m leaving. I’ve
tried to pay my bill twice. You don’t want these bills, you can sue me.’
So she took the money – like she’s doing me a favor.”



Bolesta says the cashier marked each bill with a pen. Other store
employees began to gather, a few of them asking, “Are these real?”



“Of course they are,” Bolesta said. “They’re legal tender.”

[Marvel]

Bolesta says the cashier marked each bill with a pen. Other store

employees began to gather, a few of them asking, “Are these real?”

“Of course they are,” Bolesta said. “They’re legal tender.”

The clerk was using a pen that will show a different color if counterfeit. Lots of stores use them nowadays.

http://www.staples.com/Dri-Mark-Counterfeit-Money-Detector-Pen/product_450130

I hardly every carry cash anymore, but we should all start using cash as often as possible. I've argued with a clerk at a McDonald's because he did something wrong on the register and wasn't charging me enough. I told him I owed him more, but he insisted the amount was correct. I had given him cash.

Bruce