TheBanyanTree: Quick Question

[Gloria]

Two dollar bills in America?  Yes...yes we do have them!  I haven't seen one being circulated in quite some time.  The way I remember it, we first got them back in the 70's.  I have one around here somewhere that my boyfriend took down to the post office on the first day of issue and had it stamped.  They put a first class postage stamp on it and then used their ink stamp over top of that.  Guess that makes it more valuable down the road or something.  I thought it ruined it, and maybe it did?  Still don't know.  The gov't tried to get us using the bills again some time ago and printed some more.  We might have even had them years before the 70's.  I really don't know, but it seems like my Dad has one in his drawer.  For some reason, us Mercans just put them in our drawers for safe keeping. I have one of the newer ones in a drawer too. We don't spend them and I don't know why not.  They'd be pretty handy to use, if we'd just get in the habit of it.

The same goes for our $1 coin.  I have some of those in my safe keeping drawer too.  Old ones, new ones.  They're all there!    

Gloria

 ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: JMoney 
  To: TheBanyanTree 
  Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2004 4:05 AM
  Subject: TheBanyanTree: Quick Question


  I was doing the shower circle; get one side wet, turn, get the other side
  wet, turn, do it all again.  My husband was taking a very long time to join
  me.

  I could hear a lot of rustling and drawer banging going on in the bedroom.
  "What are you doing?" I called out over the rush of the water.

  "I'm putting away my prize," he said.

  Prize?

  My husband is an inveterate contest enterer and
  application-form-for-free-samples filler outer.  I am not, which explains
  why he is always receiving parcels of things that are very occasionally
  useful, whereas I never do.  And, considering the amount of junk that
  accompanies the occasionally useful stuff, I wish he wouldn't either.

  "What prize?" I asked.

  "An American two dollar note," he replied.  "I got it for filling out a
  survey."

  An American two dollar note?

  "Do Americans actually have a two dollar note?"

  "Well, we had one."

  "What's that go to do with anything?  So what if we had one?  We're not the
  Yanks.  And, besides, we don't have one anymore.  We only have a two dollar
  coin."

  "It looks official.  It's got serial numbers and things."

  "Sounds suss to me."

  "Well, why don't you ask your BanyanTree friends?"

  "OK.  I will," I said, and then I forgot all about it.  Careful drying,
  making sure to get between every pair of toes, can do that to a person.

  A couple of days later he asked me what my friends had said.  I had to
  confess that I hadn't asked.  So now I'm asking.  Do Americans have a two
  dollar note?

  Janice