This guy walks into a fast food restaurant and orders a sausage biscuit and a Coke to go. The cashier calls the order back and tells the customer, "That’s $2.08."

The customer, a tall white male in his 20s, hands a bill to the cashier. It’s a large bill, so she waves it at the manager to see if it’s okay. He nods an affirmative, and the cashier enters the amount tendered as "$200."

Never mind that the U. S. Bureau of Printing and Engraving does not print $200 bills! Without batting an eyelash the cashier hands the customer his change of $197.92.

"Can I have two mustards and a couple of napkins with that, please?" the customer asks. He isn’t in the store more than 10 minutes and out the door he goes with a light lunch plus change for $200.

The next day the bank notifies the fast food restaurant that the $200 bill they’d deposited isn’t real money. The manager drives to the bank prepared to go to war with the bank for challenging his deposit.

Holding up the rejected $200 bill, the fast food guy says, "There’s nothing wrong with this money!"

"Except that it isn’t real money," answers the branch manager. "Take a good look at it. Sure, it has a ‘200’ on each corner, but look at the president’s picture-it’s George W. Bush-and he’s not on any of our money, at least not yet. And look at the background, it’s not the White House, it’s an oil rig."

The fast food guy is stunned. He’s embarrassed. But mostly he’s out $200. He even takes the fake bill to a lawyer friend who disappoints him by telling him that "you don’t have a counterfeit case because our government doesn’t make $200 bills."

The fast food manager does file a complaint with police under a criminal statute for "failure to pay a food bill." That’ll have to be enough until the $200 bill guy strikes again-and he will.