2 DOLLAR BILL Y'ALL

How often have you been in a convenience store and only wanted maybe a snickers and a sprite, and the total comes to roughly $2.35? You look in your wallet and find that all you've got is a $20 and your debit/credit card. You don't want to be the prick that walks around with wads of cash in your pockets, because you'll just hold up the line the next time you stop for lunch. On the other hand, you don't want to be the prick who puts a $2.35 charge on their card. Worst case scenario: you're with Bank of America and you over draft on a $2.35 purchase and get charged a $35 over-draft fee... but I digress.

If there were only some way to alleviate this dilemma. Oh wait! There is! The rarity of the $2 bill!

According to tnttrader.com, only %1 of all notes produced today are $2 bills. The note, which features the United States' 3rd president, Thomas Jefferson, and the signing of the declaration of independence had mainly been used for entertainment purposes, primarily for placing horse race bets and tips for "gentlemen's clubs." Since a print of the note in the 1976 series, the bill has only been printed twice (1995 and 2003). It is said that more will be printed once the 2003 series is taken out of circulation.

"Though many cash registers accommodate it, its slot is often used for things like checks and rolls of coin. Few money-handling machines (such as vending machines) accommodate it, but self-checkout lanes have been known to do so, even if the fact that they are accepted is not stated on the label. They are not handed out arbitrarily, but two dollar bills can sometimes be found at banks by request. Oftentimes if a bank has none in stock, they will order them, so long as the customer takes a certain quantity of the order."

-www.tnttrader.com

I honestly don't know where this whole notion of "we don't need $2 bills" came from. i don't think the people that made this statement have ever been to Snackers or Chick-fil-A on my college campus, or have ever had a long night out with friends and crave a double cheese burger! Stop making my life so damn inconvenient! We want more $2 bills and we want them NOW!