[masraum]

I went to Frys today and tried to buy a $60 stick of RAM with a $100 bill. The problem, the bill was from 1934. The cashier called over some other chick, who then called some higher ranked chick who eventually called someone like a store manager. It took at least 10 minutes for them to go through the string of people. I kept thinking, "they'll use one of those pens on the bill and it'll be fine." Nope, eventually the manager came to me and said "We believe this is not a real bill. Do you have alternate form of payment?" He said that as he handed the bill back to me. I don't remember when the guy said it, but he at some point said that his "trained loss prevention department" had checked the bill. What's sad is that their "trained loss prevention department" person tore the bill looking for the embedded strip. I'm only 36, and I know that that strip wasn't added that long ago (I looked it was 1990). Uh huh, trained loss prevention dept that doesn't know dick about money. I understand where they are coming from, and I don't really mind that they didn't take the bill. But, to tell me that "we don't believe is a real $100," and then hand the thing back to me and let me leave tells me that they just have no idea and didn't want to chance it. If they really believed that it was counterfeit, they'd have held the bill and called the cops. Why couldn't they just say something like, "because of it's age, we aren't sure of it's authenticity and would rather not take the bill."

Whatever. I guess I'll get a bank to make change and go back with smaller bills. Maybe I'll buy a $100 ones or something. Let them count that.

Just had to rant someplace.

This reminds me of the thread where the McDonalds wouldn't take a $2 bill from someone here once because they didn't believe it was real, including the manager. Pretty darn funny.