Taco Hell
by Peter Leppik

The following is a *true* story. It amused the hell out of me while it was happening. I hope it isn't one of those "had to be there" things.

On my way home from the second job I've taken for the extra holiday ca$h I need, I stopped at Taco Bell for a quick bite to eat. In my billfold is a $50 bill and a $2 bill. That is all of the cash I have on my person. I figure that with a $2 bill, I can get something to eat and not have to worry about people getting mad at me.

Me: "Hi, I'd like one seven layer burrito please, to go."

Server: "Is that it?"

Me: "Yep."

Server: "That'll be $1.04, eat here?"

Me: "No, it's "TO-GO" [I hate effort duplication]."

At this point I open my billfold and hand him the $2 bill. He looks at it kind of funny and...

Server: "Uh, hang on a sec, I'll be right back."

He goes to talk to his manager, who is still within earshot.

The following conversation occurs between the two of them.

Server: "Hey, you ever see a $2 bill?"

Manager: "No. A what?"

Server: "A $2 bill. This guy just gave it to me."

Manager: "Ask for something else, THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS A $2 BILL."

Server: "Yeah, thought so."

He comes back to me and says

Server: "We don't take these. Do you have anything else?"

Me: "Just this fifty. You don't take $2 bills? Why?"

Server: "I don't know."

Me: "See here where it says legal tender?"

Server: "Yeah."

Me: "So, shouldn't you take it?"

Server: "Well, hang on a sec."

He goes back to his manager who is watching me like I'm going to shoplift.

Server: "He says I have to take it."

Manager: "Doesn't he have anything else?"

Server: "Yeah, a fifty. I'll get it and you can open the safe and get change."

Manager: "I'M NOT OPENING THE SAFE WITH HIM IN HERE." [My emphasis]

Server: "What should I do?"

Manager: "Tell him to come back later when he has REAL money."

Server: "I can't tell him that, you tell him."

Manager: "Just tell him."

Server: "No way, this is weird, I'm going in back."

The manager approaches me and says

Manager: "Sorry, we don't take big bills this time of night." [it was 8pm and this particular Taco Bell is in a well lighted indoor mall with 100 other stores.]

Me: "Well, here's a two."

Manager: "We don't take *those* either."

Me: "Why the hell not?"

Manager: "I think you *know* why."

Me: "No really, tell me, why?"

Manager: "Please leave before I call mall security."

Me: "Excuse me?"

Manager: "Please leave before I call mall security."

Me: "What the hell for?"

Manager: "Please, sir."

Me: "Uh, go ahead, call them."

Manager: "Would you please just leave?"

Me: "No."

Manager: "Fine, have it your way then."

Me: "No, that's Burger King, isn't it?"

At this point he BACKS away from me and calls mall security on the phone around the corner. I have two people STARING at me from the dining area, and I begin laughing out loud, just for effect. A few minutes later this 45 year old-ish guy comes in and says [at the other end of counter, in a whisper]

Security: "Yeah, Mike, what's up?"

Manager: "This guy is trying to give me some [pause] funny money."

Security: "Really? What?"

Manager: "Get this, a *two* dollar bill."

Security: "Why would a guy fake a $2 bill?" [Incredulous]

Manager: "I don't know? He's kinda weird. Says the only other thing he has is a fifty."

Security: "So, the fifty's fake?"

Manager: "NO, the $2 is."

Security: "Why would he fake a $2 bill?"

Manager: "I don't know. Can you talk to him, and get him out of here?"

Security: "Yeah..."

Security guard walks over to me and says

Security: "Mike here tells me you have some fake bills you're trying to use."

Me: "Uh, no."

Security: "Lemme see 'em."

Me: "Why?"

Security: "Do you want me to get the cops in here?"

At this point I was ready to say, "SURE, PLEASE," but I wanted to eat, so I said

Me: "I'm just trying to buy a burrito and pay for it with this $2 bill."

I put the bill up near his face, and he flinches like I was taking a swing at him. He takes the bill, turns it over a few times in his hands, and says Security: "Mike, what's wrong with this bill?"

Manager: "It's fake."

Security: "It doesn't look fake to me."

Manager: "But it's a **$2** bill."

Security: "Yeah?"

Manager: "Well, there's no such thing, is there?"

The security guard and I both looked at him like he was an idiot, and it dawned on the guy that he had no clue. My burrito was free and he threw in a small drink and those cinnamon things, too.

Makes me want to get a whole stack of $2 bills just to see what happens when I try to buy stuff. If I got the right group of people, I could probably end up in jail. At least you get free food.

 

Man, what a tool. I guess it runs in the corporate family. Check this out...

From today's SBC Yahoo! News:

TACO BELL TO PAY IN 'CHIHUAHUA' LAWSUIT

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - A federal jury Wednesday ordered Taco Bell Corp. to pay $30.1 million to two men who claimed the fast-food chain stole their idea for the advertising campaign featuring a talking Chihuahua.

Thomas Rinks and Joseph Shields, both of the Grand Rapids area, sued Taco Bell in 1998, saying they pitched the idea for a character called "Psycho Chihuahua" more than a year before Taco Bell began airing the dog commercials in 1997.


They said Taco Bell advertising executives reached an oral agreement with them to use their idea, but then introduced the Chihuahua character without paying them.


Taco Bell has said it decided to use a talking dog in commercials after the ad agency TBWA-Chiat-Day proposed it.


"It's been a long time," Rinks said. "It's been 5 1/2 years of litigation and it's just really exciting that the jury system works the way it's supposed to work and that the truth is finally going to be out there."


Taco Bell's parent, Louisville, Ky.-based Yum! Brands Inc., said it will appeal. The company also said it will reduce its second-quarter earnings by 6 cents per share to cover the verdict.


"Taco Bell continues to strongly believe that the Chihuahua character was created by the Chiat-Day advertising agency, not the plaintiffs, and we intend to appeal the jury's verdict," said Laurie Gannon, a spokeswoman for Taco Bell Corp., based in Irvine, Calif.


The ads, since discontinued, featured a Chihuahua named Dinky that appeared to say "Yo quiero Taco Bell," which is Spanish for "I want Taco Bell." The campaign became wildly popular and led to toys, T-shirts and other products featuring the little dog.


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thats why i dont go there!


when i was a senior in H.S. it was my turn to get lunch at break from play rehersal, and i went to taco smell, and said"can i have 25 hard tacos and 25 soft, 20 burritos-and since i was thirsty i asked for a coke- so the girl said to me,"is that for here or to go"!!


dummas

 

Hey '01...... What really fascinated me about this story is that the cashier even stopped to give the $2 bill a second look. I'd be willing to bet that the characters at the Taco Bell near my house would take Monopoly money for an order, and never give it a second thought! I'll have to try and get a couple of these bills and see what fun I can have with them! Good story......

-Mike-

 

It just goes to show you how stupid people are getting. I need a job right now and that is exactly the reason why I won't go work at somewhere like that.

You ever watch some of these cashiers count back the money? It takes them almost a full minute to give back a few dollars because they can't figure out much to give back. Especially if the order comes out to be something like $2.67 and you give them a $5.75 and the register TELLS them how much to give back.

Taco Bell always seems to be the worst at hiring these young kids that were the ones flunking out of high school. I wouldn't even eat at our Taco Bell for a long time. Everyone that worked there looked like they were on drugs or had 300 piercings in their body. There were a couple of gothic looking girls that worked their one time. had that real white looking face and the only time they wore any color other than black was at work. It has gotten better lately though.

 

OY!!! Sometimes I just feel like treating people 'stupid until proven smart'



Story of girlfriend at Burger King

bk - can I take you order?
gf - can I have a bacon cheeseburger.
bk - we don't have that.
gf - what do you mean, I always order that.
bk - we don't serve them.
gf - well can I get a cheeseburger then?
bk - would you like bacon on that?
gf - whats the difference?

 

Gota love Taco Bell

I guess thats what they mean when they say.........

Queer as a 2 dollar bill

HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa

 

That guy was a keyhole...

 

Like McDonalds when the had the double cheeseburger on sale for 99 cents.


Wife: I'll have a double hamburger

McD's: Sorry we don't have those

Wife: Okay, I'll take a double cheeseburger without the cheese

McD's: Coming right up Mam

 

OMG! That was funny.

I hate when they expect you to speak their language to order some food. - and I don't mean spanish (this time), I mean McLanguage. I always order a kid meal. Where ever I go, because I hate the stuff, so if I am there, I am getting stuff for my kids. At McDonalds, they say "You mean a Happy meal?" and at burger King it's "You want a Kids Club meal?" and at Taco Hell, it's something else. I don't care what the hell they make their employees call it, I have a kid, and I want a stupid meal for them ok? and By the way, who the heck told them if they add greasey processed potatos, and a drink to a greasey somewhat beef product that it becomes a meal anyway?

 

I order like that all the time. I even ordered a triple cheeseburger w/out cheese before.

 

Forgive me if I offend anyone here, but I just have to share this item. I went through the BK drive through yesterday and could hardly understand the kid on the other end of the microphone. Come to find out when I get to the window, that they've put a kid with a pretty major speech impediment on the microphone for the drivethrough. I asked for the manager and gave him a bit of 'opinion' on the topic, to which he rebutted, "everybody deserves an equal chance here." My response to his rebuttal was, "No they don't! If you can't speak well and clearly, you have no business on a microphone taking customer orders." I suggested he let the kid build burgers and/or assist the other staff in filling orders, to which the manager replied "Well that just wouldn't be fair".

The future is looking pretty dark to me right now.........

-Mike-

 

I am with you on that BigDeal.

If someone has a problem speaking, then they have no business in a position that requires them to speak. If they can not speak english correctly then they should not be in a position that requires them to speak.

It is really easy to understand. This "fair" crap is just that, a bunch of feel good BS. Ok, lets be fair and make the guy in the wheel chair who can't walk go deliever pizza's...

 

Pizza... hrrm... that sounds like it might make a good lunch. I love having the day off and sleeping until 11...

Ahhh...


Then again, having 55 billable hours as of YESTERDAY pretty much will get you a day off (as they feel guilty for not giving OT - Salary sucks sometimes).

RP

 

When they put some teeny-bopper on the microphone that talks so fast you can't understand I speak VERY loud and say "you have to enunciate your words more slowly and clearly I am hard of hearing (which I am) or I'll go somewhere else" This is usually overheard by the manager who makes sure I get a big apology and maybe some extra food-crap.
And then there was this friend of mine who pretended to be blind and drove along the pickup wall with his hand feeling his way along the wall----nobody thought anything about a blind man driving. Makes you wonder at the avg. IQ of the fast food service worker.