Ran into a situation Monday.
It actually began Friday, when I received a $100 bill as part of a transaction.
The C-Note sat in my wallet all weekend. Then, Monday, I went to Hardee’s for lunch.
They don’t take $100 bills. Fifties either, as it turns out, though I didn’t have one those, so…
Anyway, there I was, with legal tender (for all debts, public and private), and I couldn’t spend it.
As it turned out, they take credit cards. So, I broke out my Visa card, and paid the bill.
But that $100 bill? Useless. At Hardee’s. McDonald’s, too. As well as Wendy’s. And all the other places a cheapskate like me eats lunch.
So, I can’t use it for food.
I’m wondering if I should accuse Hardee’s of being racist. I’m not sure why. It just seems the thing to do these days.
I am fairly sure they are required by law to accept legal tender. You should sue their butts for a free meal.
In the 80s nobody would accept any bills larger than a $20. Now it’s 2009. Tell them when they go back to 1980 prices you’ll be happy to pay with a $20.
When one complains about the food at Denny’s it’s kind of like going to a Hooker and complaining that you don’t feel loved. Same thing with a guy that has a $100 bill in his pocket and goes to Hardees…
Do you really think the person behind the register would be able to give you the appropriate amount of change for a hundred?
You need to get to a bank and exchange that c-note for a stack of $2 bills. I’m pretty sure you’d have a much easier time trying to pass those off.
Ha! You need a link on here so I can email a link to your site to people I think would find you funny. I’m too lazy to do it all on my own… but now I HAVE to, since you are a little lacking on customer service here. (I hope I didn’t miss the little link to do that, it would be so embarrassing, though certainly not a unique experience for me.)
Ok, on topic… I hate when the cashier at the hardware store writes on my money with magic marker to make sure it’s “real” money… it’s entirely too suspenseful for me, because if the bank is going to screw up and give out fake money – it’s going to be to me! (or one of my kids that owes me money)
I actually have no problem with that. It’s a free friggin country. Accept or don’t accept what you want. If someone won’t accept anything but a goat and three chickens for payment, that’s their right. However, if you’re looking for racism…
All you have to do is relate it to a negative stereotype. For example, rappers are always throwing aroung hundred dollar bills in music videos. Therefore, not accepting hundreds is racist. I’m awesome at that game.
ALL debts public or private. You don’t take 100s? you no get paid, BIATCH! lol that is how i would handle it.
On, never never use a c-note for something as pedestrian as a meal at *Hardee’s*. It’s a superior bill; it needs to be spent on something exciting, scintillating, titilllating. Like a case of wine. Or a fab dinner out at a non-Hardee’s establishment. Or, I don’t know, a couple of *tires* or something.
You would have been able to use it, had you been purchasing arugala
Domino’s takes 100’s, and even for deliveries unless you live at the corner of Red Light Alley and Meth Way.
I don’t know about other KFCs, but the one here takes $100s. Guess you should’ve gone to KFC.
Soon, everything will cost less than $100, Basil, so you don’t need $100 bills right now. Save ’em up for the coming Democrat prosperity. Then that C-note just might cover a tip.
Ummm…it’s a simple fact that they only keep a limited amount of change in the register. If I’ve got $50 change, how am I going to give you $96.82 back for Basil’s lunch? When the register gets to a certain level it’s dropped in the safe. Call it theft prevention. Sorry to be the thruther today.
$100 bills are made for stuff like hookers and Strip Clubs. I think it says somewhere on the $100 “for use to pay for Hookers and Strippers” somewhere. It’s probably in really small print so you missed it I’m sure…
It might be racist if Ben Franklin had been black, but I think PammyV’s # 13 comment will have to suffice.
They’ll take it when obambi’s picture is on all of our cash.
I live in Italy where the shop owners are absolutely nutty about not wanting to make change. Some say it’s because the banks don’t readily give them enough change, others have other theories. In the Lira days, before 2002, a 50,000 ITL note, equal to about $25 used to make them moan and groan. Now, the Euro comes in denominations of E.100, E.200 and unbelievably E.500. That last one is worth about $700 and you actually see them in circulation.
The US $100.00 bill is the most counterfeited bill in the world (followed closely by the US $20.00 – who says that we’re not loved in the world?) They are almost impossible to use in Europe because of that. Traveler’s checks, credit cards, even Euros are easier to spend. I had not known that Hardees is European.
(On the other hand, I have had US store clerks ask for my ID when I’ve tried to pay using a traveler’s check. That one gets rung up as “No Sale”; there are other, more intelligent stores.)