Man Tries To Buy $.99 Taco Bell Taco With Gold Coin Worth $1428, Fails
Quote: For a culture so obsessed with money, we sure don't know the value of it. Here is a video of a guy trying buy a $.99 Taco Bell taco with an American Eagle gold coin. It's legal tender for $50, but with gold the price of gold where it's at, has a meltdown value of more like $1428. The Taco Bell employee doesn't really want to take it, saying it's "for collecting" and is much happier when the guy pays with two one-dollar bills. To be fair, he gives up pretty quick and doesn't press his case, but that Taco slinger sure missed out.
He automatically assumes the person behind the counter has no idea what a gold coin is worth... having worked at Taco Bell for 4+ years, I can tell you, for sure, that there are those behind the counter who would know its value. Heck that's how I got half my collection, I'd load up one pocket with miscellaneous change, and then throughout the day I'd load up the other pocket with whatever good stuff came through. i'd just swap it out... they didn't care, a quarter is a quarter to the business. I did make sure though that if I saw something as it was being passed I made sure to tell the person, which is exactly what that cashier did. I "refused" cool things like a $5 silver certificate, silver quarters, War Nickels, wheat pennies, etc all the time. If I pointed it out and they still wanted to pay with it, I'd take it but I didn't feel right about knowingly taking it from their hands without them having any idea what it was. If they knowingly spent it, or come nighttime and it was in someone else's drawer I was counting, it was mine.
So, perhaps it is my background of being in that exact position, but as I see it the girl behind the counter is trying to politely tell him "hey you moron, don't spend that!" She does after all say that this is "better in a collection" and were I working the drive through that day that's exactly what I would have said. Or perhaps she's worried it's counterfeit or stolen-- which would also be running through my mind were I in that position.
Either way I must admit I take a little offense to this dude presuming that because someone works at Taco Bell and can't necessarily afford a $1400 coin that they don't know what it's worth or are ignorant of such things.
Nothing gets me hotter under the collar than someone trying to put on airs by putting someone else down and depicting them as an idiot just because of their job, age, or position in life--- especially when (to me) it seems as if that person is trying to do the right thing.
It would have been more entertaining if she accepted it as payment...then we could have watched him go into the restaurant with his tale between his legs, begging the manager for his coin back.
Quote: My question exactly. What does this smart-aleck do when she simply hands him $49 in change, thanks him, and tells him to have a nice day?
Thats just what I was going to post omahaorange. I would like to see his face when she tells him "Have A Nice Day" after handing him his change and closing the drive thur window.
What exactly did he want to happen? Her to take the coin and give him change? Seems like she is the one that has the common sense/cents in the video. Want to get rid of the coin? Come see me. I'll buy you a filet mignon and lobster tail dinner.
Even if they don't know that an ounce of gold is worth $1400+, the real shame is that they don't recognize a real coin.
Wednesday, I got a $4 breakfast. Cashier says, "OK, pancakes, sausage, eggs extra, that's four dollars." I hand her a dollar bill and three brass bucks. "Wait a minute, the total is four dollars." I just look at her and don't say a word. A second or two pass, and the light comes on. "Oh, thank you, thank you very much..."
I can walk into any Chinese restaurant and hand them any combination of halves, brass bucks or sbas, or $2 bills, and they don't bat an eye before handing back the correct change. Give a couple Kennedys for a $1 purchase to someone who has lived here all their life, and they either blank out completely or ask "are these those new dollar coins?"
I may take you up on that Filet and Lobster dinner so long as it is at Bull and Bear in New York City and includes the $30 Martinis. That bill may well run more than $1500! Wife and I had an anniversary dinner there and it was quite a hit to the old checkbook.
Never argue or EVEN question a customer on the form of payment. Take his $50 coin and give him his change and swap it out. Tough "tacos" for him! He seemed exceedingly arrogant. AND don't throw perfectly good food (taco in this case) away, some of us don't have money to just throw away.
Too bad he didn't swallow his coin or even crash his vehicle, I would have enjoyed seeing that video.
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Posted 03/19/2011 02:10 am
with Mint Marq
Want to get rid of the coin? Come see me. I'll buy you a filet mignon and lobster tail dinner.
