Thursday, February 18, 2010

2 Dollar Bills

In my opinion, the coolest denomination of money is the 2 dollar bill. I have saved all of the two dollar bills I've ever gotten. Sadly, I only have two of them. My grandfather gave me one back in about October or November and a couple of weeks ago I got one at the Jack-in-the-Box, or JIBS as my brother, Alan, so nicely puts it. I guess having never sought out one, it reflects their rarity.

The JIBS bill, I think, was a kind of gift or token from the drive-through guy. I was trying to figure out what Alan wanted to order and kept drawing out my words while talking to him, you know, like the wazzup of Budweiser commercial fame. It wasn't too surprising, but he matched my drawn out drawl with a raised-octave, drawn out will that be all for you. I wasn't sure if he was being funny, or being a douchebag, or both, so I decided the one up approach was best. No, that'll be all thanks, higher and longer was my counter offer. This continued for a couple of exchanges until I was told to approach the first window.
I turned to Alan and laughing, he concurred with my confusion of this guy either being a douchebag, or just having a good time at a potentially crappy job on a slow night.

So I approached the first window (which was weird if you've ever been through this drive-through. I can't ever think of a time I'd been called to the first window, and even when I got to the second window, the girl asked me to pay again, which I promptly refused) and saw a normal looking kid, speaking in a regular voice. I paid for the food, and as part of the change I got a pretty good quality 2 dollar bill.

So, of course, I like to think that this kid and I were just having a friendly, albeit weird, conversation. Who would give someone a 2 dollar bill as change if you were trying to be a douchebag. I mean, unless you consider that he might put no stock in the things, but I see that as a very unlikely scenario.

Monday, February 15, 2010

An useful application

So I was gchatting with a friend earlier tonight and decided it would be both useful and amazingly fun if facebook would release a filter (amongst their myriad updates), or someone would make an app, that would allow one to see all of his friends on facebook that are in a relationship. There could be a further mode which would allow one to see which of his friends are in a relationship with one another.

Now, no one needs to agree with me that this would be either useful/fun, because I understand that it would reflect poorly upon you to express desire for such a thing. An apt name for it might even be "the creeper." Regardless, that's why I'm posting this. So you can continue to be in hiding about your love of dishing, especially in regards to who is dating whom, and just muse upon the idea of a facebook where one could see all of his friends' relationship without relying on the random whims of the news feed.

Besides, as we all well know, it's not official unless it's facebook official. What better way to keep track of those serious couples.