Ok.....I just had a guy try to pay me in 2 dollar bills. I'm kinda laughing at myself because I've just realized. I have NO experience with 2 dollar bills.

I thought they were ones, I was trying to figure out why in the hell is the wad SO big. A little too big for $500. He tries to hand it to me. I point to my coffee table to tell him he may place it there. That's when I noticed the bills looked very WHITE. So I grab them & I see that they're a bunch of two's I mean he has a HUGE wad. Even more that he placed back into his pocket. Now Idk if I'm just completely ignorant. lol but I KNOW that 2 dollar bills exist. I haven't seen one since 3rd grade when we were learning about the Constitution. I remember some guys coming in & showing us the two dollar bill. I remember it looked just as green as the other bills. These bills were pretty much white & black.

I tell him that these are fake & pretty much dismiss him! He assures me they aren't. He asked if he could just go to the atm for "normal" money lol. I said sure (only because a he was a friend of a regular, anyone else would get the boot!). Anyways. He comes back with "regular bills".

I hopped on Google. & read an article of a guy getting detained because he was trying to pay a 140 something bill in 2's. They had to call the secret service to make sure they were real.

Now I'm laughing at myself. He apologizes. Then I apologize. I told him I'm just not used to seeing $2 bills. I have no "experience" with them lol.

Do I have to make a disclaimer that I don't accept $2 bills now? lmao

What would you guys do? Would you accept or try to pay in $2 bills? I'll stick with the rivers and the oceans & the dollars that I'm used too. I feel so ignorant right now lol. They should print those things & have them in rotation more often. I mean two is actually my fave number.  

Then again if you carry around $2 bills, don't you kinda expect people to do a double take? I'ts not like they're in heavy rotation.

lol Anyway, thought I'd share that with you guys. I have some more Googling to do.

-Nina

Always gives change in 2 dollar bills, from the cover charge  to the bar. Guess they figure, dancers and servers will get twice the tip they normally receive. Little aggravating to me.  

Usually leave with a pocket full of them, get some strange looks the next day at convenience stores and restaurants.

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There was a strip club in South Carolina that would always give change in 2 dollar bills. They figured out a way to make those cheapo 1 dollar tippers pay double....lol. I would use any I had left over for tooth fairy money. My ex would always ask where the heck I was getting all the 2 dollar bills. I have to say though it was a great club.

People tend to freak out, when you use Ike's, Susan B, Saka Gold Tone, or Presidential Dollar coins.  I have had restaurants refuse them cuz size is too close to quarters, until I remind them it's legal tender.  I have been known to use the $2 bill as well.  I actually like the look of the note, but they are a bother.  I had several thousand silver certificates once I would slip into a lunch payment.  It was funny to see managers think they had something valuable.  The cool ones would come back and suggest I want to keep it, most would pull it from drawer for personal usage.

In the volume you are talking about, however, seems excessive.

they're new, less cumbersome, and easier to keep track of

A chain of restaurants, known for bison, requires wait staff to make change in 2$ as the namesake owner is fond of the denomination.

Clemson fans have used $2 bills with an orange Tiger Paw stamped on them for 30-40 years when traveling for bowl games.  This tradition started to show the businesses the impact that Clemson fans had on the local economy.  Just this past season, I read several articles about the large quantity of $2 bills being spent by Clemson fans in the Miami area for the Orange Bowl and then again in Arizona for the National Championship Game.  

Funny story, Anina.  Thanks for sharing.

There is such a thing as $2 bills, but what kind of dbag would go to the trouble to get a stack that size?? Like he didn't know you'd say wtf???

Platinum Plus in Greenville, SC did same thing. busted for prostitution & closed

I was an office cashier at a grocery store in the Jacksonville, FL area.  We had three dog tracks back then. They paid out winnings in dimes, which customers would try to get rid of at the store.  Anytime I see a bunch of dimes I ask - "Win big at the dog track?"

I went to one of those clubs in Columbia that was mentioned and was very surprised to see $2 bills.  It's so rare that I'm always tempted to go back and get some more.

But he HAD to expect me say wth. I mean, given the circumstances lol.

-Anina

A guy paid in all quarters the funny part they spent majority of the session  rolling the quarters lol. I actually  save $2 bills tho i have about 8 of them

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told me one of his regular used to pay in ones mostly ... and she was high end! lol!
So I asked when do you count them .. in front or later? She said one or two times in the beginning (and it was accurate) but then when he became a regular she counted later ... but never a big issue.
But she was a germophobe like I am ... so we both gravitated toward discussing how much dirt, say 500 used one dollar bills would carry ... Lol!!!

Personally, I like to deal with crisp 100s ... they help to keep things very discrete I apologize when very rarely I have to even use a stack of 20's ... just a personal thing ... I guess.

It was hilarious watching the Chinese woman who owned the place screaming at him for paying her in "quarters" in her broken English. It took him damn near an hour to convince her that he had given her $30 in "dollars" rather than $7.50 in "quarters"