The "You Do Know They Make $2 Bills, Don't You?" Story

It was an ordinary day.  Watching TV with my wife when the house phone rang.  Instantly showed the person calling on the TV screen.  "For you," I said.  A few minutes later Carol was standing next to me asking a few question about a check number and how we can check on it.  Seems that she had her hair cut a few months ago and paid for the haircut with a check, as she usually does.  Nothing special about that I thought.  But, she wrote the check out for $30 and our bank only forwarded $25 to the bank of Carol's hairdresser.  We pulled up the bank account on our desktop computer and located the check in question.  Actually took a look at the exact check she gave to her hairdresser and it was for $30.  Now what!  I called my bank to find out what happened and they told me they couldn't give out bank information over the phone, since it wasn't secure.  Good idea!  My bank is one block from our house so I hopped in the car and in a few minutes I walked in the door and found the gentleman who I had talked with a few minutes before.  He was very nice and asked if I had ever had that happen in the ..... "What's this?  In 68 years!  You've been with the bank for 68 years?" he asked me.  "Yep, and it has never happened before," I told him.  "And, I don't want it to happen ever again," I continued.  He smiled and said he has no idea how it happened.  I suggested someone entered the wrong amount into the computer at some point.  As for me...well I was $5 to the good while Carol's hairdresser was short $5.  I suggested I just stop by her shop and pay the $5 and we forget it.  He said that would be OK, but it still would make their bottom line incorrect.  Now, as all this is going on a woman walks up to the teller next to us and hands him two bundles of...are you ready for this... Two dollar bills.  Each bundle had $500 in it.  These were big bundles!  I heard her say that she went to pay for something with the money and they wouldn't take it.  They were afraid it was counterfeit money.  He checked some of the bills with a marker and declared them real.  Ran them through the money counter and gave her $50 bills instead.

My new $2 bills. It has a photo of Jefferson on it.
They had plenty of them on hand after the last customer.

 My teller was listening also and told me about a customer he had a few years ago who said he went to Texas and happened to have a bundle of $2 with him.  Went to pay for something with it and they called the police on him.  The police came, checked the bills, and arrested him for counterfeit money.  The officer said the U.S. Government doesn't make $2 bills.  This would have been funny if it hadn't been so ridiculous.  Guy received an apology at the police station, but I still find it unbelievable that people don't know that there is a $2 bill.  Why they ever made them I'm not sure, but they are real.  So real that I handed my teller a $20 and asked him for 10 $2 bills.  Will make neat gifts for the grandkids...and a lesson that they really make $2 bills.  Well, I left the bank with my new $2 bills and headed to the hairdresser to settle up her bank account.  I'll let my bank try and figure out what they did later.  It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy.