Knowledge is... well... knowing. Part One

Log start: 2:21pm August 25th, 2011

If I had a dollar for every time I used a two-dollar bill and have them question me if "this exists?" or "is this real?" or "what the shit is this?" I could probably financially support myself for the rest of my life. This post is not actually about the general populus not knowing about the two-dollar bill, but on the people that SHOULD know about the two-dollar bill.

This starts off in Flushing, Queens, NY, in the HSBC banking location where my bank tellar is this asian guy in his 20's not 5 years older than I am. I try to widthdraw some arbitrary amount of two-dollar bills and he chuckles and says to me "what are you going to do with this?" I reply with, "spend them." He says "good luck"

It was the sarcastic good luck because he must know the troubles behind spending two-dollar bills. Let me tell you, and most of you do know, that my hobby of spending two-dollar bills is nothing but a rough journey. Having cops being called on me once, receiving questionable looks all of the time, and some even claiming that these were out of production 100 years ago while the bill clearly marks that this bill was created only 8 years ago.
But it's not even about them this time.

This time, I was unsatisfied by the amount of two-dollar bills that the major HSBC branch carried so I went to my local HSBC branch to try and widthdraw some more. Last time was a great success at my local branch, i snagged up all of their two-dollar bill inventory (which is never more than 20 bills, even then 20 bills is VERY rare) so i wanted to try my luck again here.
This time i was greeted by a middle aged cantonese lady which completely breaks out in laughter when i try and widthdraw my money in denominations of two-dollar bills.

1) Rude
2) The fuck is going on?

She goes "why do you need them?" which is a rude question to begin with because I should not be explaining why I use money to my bank teller.
When she says that she dosen't have any two-dollar bills anywhere without even checking with the other tellers or the vault, I ask if I can order them from the Federal Reserve, a move that I have used and accomplished many times in the past.

She replies to me "even if you order from the money center, they won't have it"

This is where I begin to rage in my head because (in sequential raging order)
1) Two-dollar bills are still in production and still in circulation
2) I know the Federal Reserve has a shit ton of them
3) "MONEY CENTER"... are you for real?


A bank teller that refers to the Federal Reserve as the "money center" which is completely true, and I would accept that answer from anyone who has not graduated high school. But for a professional banking personnel to say "money center" is completely outrageous.
Not only did she mock me for using two-dollar bills, questions what I use money for, completely ignore the banking business ethics, but now uses incorrect terms when dealing with a customer.


This is the kind of shit that makes me want to shove tables over.

I know that two-dollar bills aren't common but that is to be expected from people outside of the banking industry.

I'm going to eat lunch in rage now...
HakoneDayDreamer, i'm writing nasty e-mails to HSBC