Strip clubs only offering change in two dollar bills. Does it tick you off?
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I was at another strip club where someone must have had the bright idea to only offer change in two dollar bills. They used to not even have two dollar bills. A number of the dancers at this club I would not want to even offer a one dollar tip. So yes it does kind of tick me off a bit when a club says they only have two's. If this keeps up, I'll probably be much more careful of who and when I tip which means the money I spend on tipping will dramatically decline. Then I probably won't bother going to that club anymore unless I get change before I visit. I guess I could always sit at a table and not bother hardly tipping like everyone else. Sometimes it seems like morons are in charge of what they offer in change. It might work fine for out of state visitors with plenty of cash to spend but I don't like it.
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I have found it amusing to give a casual acquaintance a single two dollar bill in change and they act like its special and want to save it because they haven't seen one in a long time.
This is an interesting economic proposition, in fact. The idea of introducing new, or unfamiliar, or un-useful, denominations of currency has come up now and again in discussions of whether or not the USA should do away with the penny. I think we should not. I like them, I use them, and if (as is the case) they exist conceptually (otherwise, it would be impossible to distinguish, for example, 7% tax), then they have utility. Many of the arguments against them are strictly psychological and not "really" economic / fiscal. There are good reasons to reduce their circulation, but I can't think of any other than the cost-per-piece of creating and maintaining a decent supply. But (as I recall) coins are more durable and, in the long run therefore, cheaper to make, than bills, so any cost argument actually supports moving in the OTHER direction -- creating five-dollar and two-dollar coins, keeping the penny, and eliminating the lower bills.
I do'nt remember whether I'm right or wrong about all of that. I know I like pennies and would be annoyed with $2 bills, to the point that I'd go out of my way to circumvent them.