EllenD
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Yesterday I had a very surreal and ridiculous experience at one of my local Walmarts, and I figured I would share it here just in-case it happens to anyone else here. I didn't anticipate a problem, so I wasn't mentally prepared to deal with it...
Yesterday I worked at the Rescue all day long and into the night, and I had helped to load and unload hundreds of bags of bird food, bird supplies, and reptile supplies from a truck, just a long, boring day of labor...I left around 7:00 last night to come home, and I stopped at Walmart to grab something to eat...I had forgotten to bring my wallet with me so I didn't have any cards with me (the Rescue is 20+ minutes away from State College/my house), but I had some cash in my car, including a $2 bill that I had gotten as change from a bar last week. It was the first $2 bill I'd seen in years, but I have occasionally gotten them over the years as change, along with those stupid gold dollar coins that you get at the toll-booths that drive me crazy...Anyway, I had left the $2 bill in my car, and since I didn't have much cash on me, I grabbed the $2 bill and thought "Good time to get rid of this thing"...
I grabbed a sandwich and then went to the register at Walmart where you can buy cigarettes, because I also forgot my vape and hadn't had any nicotine all day long except for one cigarette I bummed from another worker. I got into the line, put the sandwich up, asked for a pack of smokes (praying she wouldn't card me because I didn't have my ID with me either, which she didn't), and then handed her the cash...The cashier was a young girl, probably between 18-25, so when she looked at the $2 bill strangely I wasn't surprised, she'd probably never seen one before...She said "What is this? I didn't know there were $2 bills." I laughed and told her that yeah, they have been printing them for decades but that they aren't very common any longer because they never printed many of them to begin with. I told her I had gotten it as change in a well-know bar downtown a week ago, and she wanted to ask her Manager before she took it...I didn't mind, in fact I didn't blame her because she didn't know anything about it...So she flipped-on a light that flashed, I guess that's the call for the manager...Then the fun began...
This other woman walks over, she's one of the managers (but not the general manager of the store) and she was probably around my age, I'd say in her mid to late 30's...The cashier showed her the $2 bill and said that I was trying to use it to pay for my stuff, and that she wanted to check to make sure it was okay...no problem there at all, the cashier was totally cool and I don't blame her one bit for what happened...But this manager was just completely rude from the moment she walked over to us, she was rude to me but she was just as rude to her own cashier who was just trying to do the right thing and cover her ass...She grabbed the $2 bill, looked at it, rolled her eyes, and then looked at me with a sigh and said "Really?", followed by "You're going to have to give use different bills because we don't accept these, even if they are real." I told her it was real, that I had gotten it as change at a local bar, and that I didn't have any other cash on my person, that was it...She then told me that I'd have to leave and come back with with other money/cards or just leave. I told her it was legal currency and that they actually still print $2, and she said "How do we know it's even real?"...Why anyone would make counterfeit $2 bills I have no idea, lol, but I asked to speak to her supervisor because I really needed a cigarette at this point, that was all I was thinking about to be honest...She then pulled out her little walkie-talkie and called security...
I asked her why she was calling security, and she said to "escort me out of the store", I asked why, she hadn't even asked me to leave the store, I only asked to speak to her supervisor, and then she said "You're lucky I don't call the police", I asked why would she call the police, and she said because I was possibly trying to spend "phony money". I asked her if she had never seen a $2, and told her I was asking her a serious question, because I could understand if she hadn't ever seen one or known about them, and she again rolled her eyes at me and said "Just stop. You're not doing yourself any favors because you know you've been on video since you walked into the store, right? So you really need to just stop". She still hadn't asked me to leave the store once, and security wasn't coming for some reason, so yes, she called over another manager, explained what was going on, and this manager immediately said "I'm calling State College Borough", meaning the police, to which the first manager said "I was thinking Rockview, isn't that more appropriate for this?"...Yes, they called the freaking Pennsylvania State Police on me for giving them a $2 to pay for the things I was buying...
Long story short, I had to sit there and wait for almost an hour for a PA State Trooper to arrive from their barracks that are a 5-minute drive from the Walmart (I figured if I left they'd have video of me all over the local news, stating that I was wanted for trying to spend counterfeit money, lol)...I don't like police much at all, I'll be honest, they make me nervous and I don't trust them at all, which probably isn't fair of me, but it's just my experience with them all...However, this guy walked into the Walmart, spoke to the managers while I was sitting on a bench having the worst nicotine-fit of my life, they showed him my $2 bill, he looked at it and said something to them, I couldn't hear them at all, then they visibly got very angry and upset with the cop, and he got out his little notebook and walked over to me...He immediately said "You're the one with the $2 bill? Yeah, I don't know what the problem is but I have to take down your information and write a report of this, here's your $2 bill back..." He took down my info and then told me to have a nice day, then he went over to the manager's office...I realized then that they still had my $10 bill as well, lol...I went over to the cashier and said "I guess I'm good to go even though you guys won't take the $2 bill, but I still need to get back my $10 too", to which the cashier said "I'm so sorry, I didn't know that they made $2 bills, now I'm in trouble for embarrassing her stupid-ass too"...I felt badly...Well, she had put my $10 in her register and canceled the sale, but she had to have a manager come over to open the register up with a key to return my $10, right?...Yeah, I had no "proof" that I had given them a $10, no receipt because I didn't actually buy anything, nothing, and the same manager refused to give me my $10 back, or to use it to buy a pack of cigarettes...I asked her to "Please take a look at that video you told me I've been on since I walked into the store and you'll find me handing your cashier a $10 bill and a $2 bill", and the cashier verified this as well...Nope, I have to call corporate and file a complaint against her, or call the police and file my own report against Walmart for $10...She simply walked away and refused to look at the video, which I'm sure is erased or recorded-over by now...Hundred-billion dollar company stole $10 from me because I tried to pay with a legal $2 bill...
Yesterday I worked at the Rescue all day long and into the night, and I had helped to load and unload hundreds of bags of bird food, bird supplies, and reptile supplies from a truck, just a long, boring day of labor...I left around 7:00 last night to come home, and I stopped at Walmart to grab something to eat...I had forgotten to bring my wallet with me so I didn't have any cards with me (the Rescue is 20+ minutes away from State College/my house), but I had some cash in my car, including a $2 bill that I had gotten as change from a bar last week. It was the first $2 bill I'd seen in years, but I have occasionally gotten them over the years as change, along with those stupid gold dollar coins that you get at the toll-booths that drive me crazy...Anyway, I had left the $2 bill in my car, and since I didn't have much cash on me, I grabbed the $2 bill and thought "Good time to get rid of this thing"...
I grabbed a sandwich and then went to the register at Walmart where you can buy cigarettes, because I also forgot my vape and hadn't had any nicotine all day long except for one cigarette I bummed from another worker. I got into the line, put the sandwich up, asked for a pack of smokes (praying she wouldn't card me because I didn't have my ID with me either, which she didn't), and then handed her the cash...The cashier was a young girl, probably between 18-25, so when she looked at the $2 bill strangely I wasn't surprised, she'd probably never seen one before...She said "What is this? I didn't know there were $2 bills." I laughed and told her that yeah, they have been printing them for decades but that they aren't very common any longer because they never printed many of them to begin with. I told her I had gotten it as change in a well-know bar downtown a week ago, and she wanted to ask her Manager before she took it...I didn't mind, in fact I didn't blame her because she didn't know anything about it...So she flipped-on a light that flashed, I guess that's the call for the manager...Then the fun began...
This other woman walks over, she's one of the managers (but not the general manager of the store) and she was probably around my age, I'd say in her mid to late 30's...The cashier showed her the $2 bill and said that I was trying to use it to pay for my stuff, and that she wanted to check to make sure it was okay...no problem there at all, the cashier was totally cool and I don't blame her one bit for what happened...But this manager was just completely rude from the moment she walked over to us, she was rude to me but she was just as rude to her own cashier who was just trying to do the right thing and cover her ass...She grabbed the $2 bill, looked at it, rolled her eyes, and then looked at me with a sigh and said "Really?", followed by "You're going to have to give use different bills because we don't accept these, even if they are real." I told her it was real, that I had gotten it as change at a local bar, and that I didn't have any other cash on my person, that was it...She then told me that I'd have to leave and come back with with other money/cards or just leave. I told her it was legal currency and that they actually still print $2, and she said "How do we know it's even real?"...Why anyone would make counterfeit $2 bills I have no idea, lol, but I asked to speak to her supervisor because I really needed a cigarette at this point, that was all I was thinking about to be honest...She then pulled out her little walkie-talkie and called security...
I asked her why she was calling security, and she said to "escort me out of the store", I asked why, she hadn't even asked me to leave the store, I only asked to speak to her supervisor, and then she said "You're lucky I don't call the police", I asked why would she call the police, and she said because I was possibly trying to spend "phony money". I asked her if she had never seen a $2, and told her I was asking her a serious question, because I could understand if she hadn't ever seen one or known about them, and she again rolled her eyes at me and said "Just stop. You're not doing yourself any favors because you know you've been on video since you walked into the store, right? So you really need to just stop". She still hadn't asked me to leave the store once, and security wasn't coming for some reason, so yes, she called over another manager, explained what was going on, and this manager immediately said "I'm calling State College Borough", meaning the police, to which the first manager said "I was thinking Rockview, isn't that more appropriate for this?"...Yes, they called the freaking Pennsylvania State Police on me for giving them a $2 to pay for the things I was buying...
Long story short, I had to sit there and wait for almost an hour for a PA State Trooper to arrive from their barracks that are a 5-minute drive from the Walmart (I figured if I left they'd have video of me all over the local news, stating that I was wanted for trying to spend counterfeit money, lol)...I don't like police much at all, I'll be honest, they make me nervous and I don't trust them at all, which probably isn't fair of me, but it's just my experience with them all...However, this guy walked into the Walmart, spoke to the managers while I was sitting on a bench having the worst nicotine-fit of my life, they showed him my $2 bill, he looked at it and said something to them, I couldn't hear them at all, then they visibly got very angry and upset with the cop, and he got out his little notebook and walked over to me...He immediately said "You're the one with the $2 bill? Yeah, I don't know what the problem is but I have to take down your information and write a report of this, here's your $2 bill back..." He took down my info and then told me to have a nice day, then he went over to the manager's office...I realized then that they still had my $10 bill as well, lol...I went over to the cashier and said "I guess I'm good to go even though you guys won't take the $2 bill, but I still need to get back my $10 too", to which the cashier said "I'm so sorry, I didn't know that they made $2 bills, now I'm in trouble for embarrassing her stupid-ass too"...I felt badly...Well, she had put my $10 in her register and canceled the sale, but she had to have a manager come over to open the register up with a key to return my $10, right?...Yeah, I had no "proof" that I had given them a $10, no receipt because I didn't actually buy anything, nothing, and the same manager refused to give me my $10 back, or to use it to buy a pack of cigarettes...I asked her to "Please take a look at that video you told me I've been on since I walked into the store and you'll find me handing your cashier a $10 bill and a $2 bill", and the cashier verified this as well...Nope, I have to call corporate and file a complaint against her, or call the police and file my own report against Walmart for $10...She simply walked away and refused to look at the video, which I'm sure is erased or recorded-over by now...Hundred-billion dollar company stole $10 from me because I tried to pay with a legal $2 bill...
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