One day Sis was on the way home from a day of shopping. She stopped at Taco Bell for a quick bite to eat. In her wallet she had a $50 bill and a $2 bill. She figured that with a $2 bill she could get something to eat and not have to worry about anyone getting irritated for trying to break a $50 bill.

Sis: “Hi, I’d like one seven-layer burrito please, to go.”

Server: “That’ll be $1.04. Eat in?”

Sis: “No, it’s to go.”

At this point, she opened her wallet and handed him the $2 bill.

He looks at it kind of funny.

Server: “Uh, hang on a sec, I’ll be right back.”

He goes to talk to his manager, who is still within her earshot. The following conversation occurs between the two of them:

Server: “Hey, you ever see a $2 bill?”

Manager: “No. A what?”

Server: “A $2 bill. This lady just gave it to me.”

Manager: “Ask for something else, there’s no such thing as a $2 bill.”

Server: “Yeah, thought so”

He comes back to Sis and says, “We don’t take these. Do you have anything else?”

Sis: “Just this fifty. You don’t take $2 bills? Why?”

Server: “I don’t know.”

Sis: “See here where it says legal tender?”

Server: “Yeah.”

Sis: “So, why won’t you take it?”

Server: “Well, hang on a sec.”

He goes back to his manager, who has been watching over Sis like she was a shoplifter, and says to him, “she said I have to take it.”

Manager: “Doesn’t she have anything else?”

Server: “Yeah, a fifty. I’ll get it and you can open the safe and get change “

Manager: “I’m not opening the safe with her in here.”

Server: “What should I do?”

Manager: “Tell her to come back later when she has real money.”

Server: “I can’t tell her that! You tell her.”

Manager: “Just tell her.”

Server: “No way! This is weird. I’m going in back.”

The manager approaches Sis and says, “I’m sorry, but we don’t take big bills this time of night.”

Sis: “It’s only seven o’clock! Well then, here’s a two dollar bill.”

Manager: “We don’t take those, either.”

Sis: “Why not?”

Manager: “I think you know why.”

Sis: “No really, tell me why.”

Manager: “Please leave before I call mall security.”

Sis: “Excuse me?”

Manager: “Please leave before I call mall security.”

Sis: “What on earth for?”

Manager: “Please, just leave.”

Sis: “Uh, go ahead, call them”

Manager: “Would you please just leave?”

Sis: “No.”

Manager: “Fine — have it your way then.”

Sis: “Hey, that’s Burger King, isn’t it?”

At this point, he backs away from Sis and calls mall security on the phone around the corner. She has two people staring at her from the dining area, Sis begins laughing out loud, just for effect. A few minutes later this 45-year-oldish guy comes in.

Guard: “Yeah, Mike, what’s up?”

Manager (whispering): “This lady is trying to give me some (pause) funny money.”

Guard: “No kidding! What?”

Manager: “Get this … a two dollar bill.”

Guard (incredulous): “Why would a lady fake a two dollar bill?”

Manager: “I don’t know. She is kinda weird. She said the only other thing she has is a fifty.”

Guard: “Oh, so the fifty’s fake!”

Manager: “No, the two dollar bill is.”

Guard: “Why would she fake a two dollar bill?”

Manager: “I don’t know! Can you talk to her, and get her out of here?”

Guard: “Yeah.”

(Security Guard walks over to Sis .)

Guard: “Mike here tells me you have some fake bills you’re trying to use”

Sis: “Uh, no.”

Guard: “Lemme see ‘em.”

Sis: “Why?”

Guard: “Do you want me to get the cops in here?”

At this point Sis is ready to say, “Sure, please!” but Sis just wanted to eat, so she said “I’m just trying to buy a burrito and pay for it with this two dollar bill. Sis puts the bill up near his face, and he flinches like she is taking a swing at him. He takes the bill, turns it over a few times in his hands, and says, Hey, Mike, what’s wrong with this bill?”

Manager: “It’s fake.”

Guard: “It doesn’t look fake to me.”

Manager: “But it’s a two dollar bill.”

Guard: “Yeah?”

Manager: “Well, there’s no such thing, is there?”

The security guard and Sis both look at him like he’s an idiot, and it dawns on the guy that he has no clue.

So, it turns out that her burrito was free, and he threw in a small drink and some of those cinnamon thingies, too.

Now Sis wants to get a whole stack of two dollar bills just to see what happens when she tries to buy stuff.

Meeting

Prudence Lodge meets Thursday, Sept. 6, at 7 p.m.

Flower Of The Month

The flower of the month of September is Aster. The color is purple, a symbol of love.

Reminder

Drive safely, school has started.

Prayer Concerns

Sis Haney; Barbara Inman; Carol Whitener; Our schools, the administration, teachers and most of all — the students; Rev. Glenn; Mary and Joshua Riblin,

We know they are in the right hands

Please remember in prayer the family of Mr. Eulis J. Gibson.

Fact

Did you know that the first radio broadcast was broadcasted on Tuesday, Sept. 4, the year was 1931? Now, you know.

Wisdom

In the universe, there are things that are known and things that are unknown, and in between , there are doors.

— William Blake

Till Next Time

— Hoyt