I read the craziest article on MSNBC.com today.  Apparently some clerk actually accepted a $200 bill from a customer.  The article is here.  But this didn't happen just once!  It happened in two different places.  In once case someone used the $200 bill to pay for $99 dollars of stuff.  In the other case someone used the $200 bill to buy a $2 item at a Dairy Queen.  The obliging clerk paid the customer back $198 in change. 

 

I can just imagine the kid after the customer leaves.  He grabs the $200 bill from the drawer and goes back to his friends.  "Hey, have you guys ever seen a $200 bill!  It's pretty amazing."  At which point they would all start laughing.  Come on.  I think that if someone tried to give me a $200 bill, or anything more than a $100, I would double check it before taking it. 

 

I don't know if there is a legitamate $500 bill.  But if someone tried to give me one I don't think I'd take it.  Especially if it had a picture of George W Bush on the front and a picture of the whitehouse with lawn signs saying "No More Brocoli" on the back!

 

Crazy people.  Maybe they shouldn't be working with money.

 

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