Totally Unauthorized

Well, sort of.

Gail and I went to the Black Cat Cabaret on Friday, and on Saturday the Ruth Bancroft Garden held it’s annual gala, so we hit that one, too.

Gail had developed an interesting habit of bidding like mad at these charity auctions, trying to get the prices up and raise more for the sponsoring organization. Although we are prepared to buy these things if she gets left in a bid, we aren’t really trying to buy most of them.

So Friday she bid on trip to Vegas, and again on the resort in Brazil–and we darned near ended up going to Rio, since she was hanging out there with the high bid for aaaaaaaaaaaages until somebody bid another $100 and took us off the hook.

Then tonight the big item was a cruise. and once again we came within one bid of spending a very expensive week aboard a Seadream cruise ship. She was outbid by $50 on a “martini party”, and we saved another $700.

I suppose that if we had actually “won” (not that the opportunity to spend a lot of money on something you didn’t want 20 minutes earlier is really “winning”) any of these auction items she might have been more circumspect about bidding on the next one; since she skated out just in time in every case, she felt free to keep waving her paddle with gusto.

It’s a good thing I had a double bypass 9 years ago; I don’t think I could survive another charity event without it.