i'm wondering if the convenience store clerk is going to think my $2 bills are fake

[fizzgig]

our neighbor owed us 20 bucks and paid us in $2 bills, so that's what i have right now. this should be interesting.

[MosheFeingold]

1. $2 are for robberies

I used to be a cop. Convenience stores typically leave a marked $2 bill in the register to help figure out who the robber is.

He probably thought you had robbed 10 stores.

[Chan790]

4. When I was a bank teller...

the last $100 in the drawer triggers an alarm...but the one above it was the one you had to watch out for.

Experienced bank-robbers know not to take the bottom bills of the stack because of the clip alarm...but nobody really thinks about the ones above it. That 1980 "old-style" $100 bill is a killer of a smoking gun...even if it wasn't marked as fsck with UV ink, there just aren't that many floating around. They stick out.

[magical thyme]

8. uh-oh...maybe the neighbor robbed 10 stores and unloaded the twos

on Fizzgig.

WATCH OUT FIZZGIG!!!! IT'S A TRAP!!!!!!!!

[LiberalElite]

2. I would assume it and exchange them at the bank -

once I paid a grocery store cashier with a buffalo nickel and she thought it wasn't money. (I should have kept that nickel - may have been worht more than 5 cents)

[trackfan]

3. I once used a $2 bill and a silver dollar to pay for something

and the clerk didn't bat an eye. I was very disappointed. (By "silver dollar" I mean a newer dollar coin, not a real silver one).

[davidpdx]

5. $2 bills are not as rare as people make them out to be

I read this in an article in the last year or so. People tend to hoard them because they think they are rare.

[Ino]

6. I used a JFK half-dollar at McDonalds...

and the clerk said it wasn't real money. The manager had to tell her it was real.

[TexasBushwhacker]

7. There's a metal recycler in Houston that pays in $2 bills

I guess he gets the bank to save them up for him.

[Snobblevitch]

9. When I was a college athlete we got our meal money in $2 bills.

[malthaussen]

10. When I visited the UK in 90, they still had shillings and such floating around.

Even though they'd been decimal for 25 years. One never knew what would be in the next handful of change.

For all I know, they still do, but I haven't been back since.

-- Mal

[DFW]

11. About ten years ago, one guy used a $2 bill to pay for a $1.59 taco

The cashier had never seen one, so he called the manager, who threatened to call the police if the customer wouldn't pay. The customer said he was paying and pointed to the $2 bill. The manager called the cops, and when a policeman arrived, the manager said the customer was trying to pay with the $2 bill. The cop looked at the note and said it looked OK to him. The manager then said there was no such thing as a $2 bill. The customer and the cop both looked at the manager like he was an idiot, and the cop said of course there was such a thing, and there always had been. The embarrassed manager then apologized for his ignorance, and said the taco was on the house.