I got hosed!

That's right, I got hosed. I should say Hosed (with a capital H). If there was a Hosed-ville, I'd be the mayor.
Our neighbor kids invited us to a brat fry benefit to raise money for the HS LaCrosse team, and we gladly bought tickets. The benefit included a brat or hotdog dinner complete with pasta salad, chips and a cookie....but thats not important part. At the dinner there was a silent auction to raise more money. Since Madison is the home of American Girl dolls there were several items donated from them. Let me note: I have been obsessed with these dolls since I was a child...however, the closest I ever got to owning one was when the free catalog came to our house, I would flip thru the pages until they tore. Well, at the auction tonight they had a pair of Itty-Bitty Twin boys complete with the stroller. The starting bid was $60 (valued at $150). I immediately bid the minimum price thinking I had this in the bag (only an hour left to the end of the auction and I was the first bidder). I REALLY wanted the boy dolls for Maudie to have a baby boy of her own when Charlie arrives. Do you know how hard it is to find a boy doll?? I figured I'd give away or sell the second doll.
While we waited for the auction to close we ate our dinner, chatted with the neighbors and bought raffle tickets for a 50:50 drawing. They were running a special.... for $20 you could get your (or one of the player's) arm span worth of tickets. At 6ft 6in that's a pretty good deal for Chris (43 tickets). Maudie placed her bid on a Minnie mouse doll for $8 and Chris put in a bid for $10 on a hand held golf game.
OK....here we are, the night is coming to an end. Chris won the drawing (almost $100) and Maudie won the Minnie Mouse (Daddy then bought her the matching Mickey) and I was stoked about my prize (not yet in the bag). We checked the bidding to make sure nobody out bid me and there was another bid for $5 more. I bid again. Come back a few minutes later, bid another $2. At this point there is only 5 minutes left of the auction so we take a seat near the item to catch a glimpse of who keeps out bidding me. Turns out it's an old blue-haired granny. I was going to out-whit her and bid in the last minute. But grannie was circling like a vulture. I went down to make the final bid and they shut it down 1 minute early. Someone was going to allow one more bid but grannie yelled at her and I quietly slipped away. Chris said I should have brought Maudie with me and made her cry because she couldn't have the dolls....or make up some story about having twin boys, maybe throw in the fact that daddy had a brain tumor and we may never have more kids. Instead, all I won was a horrible case of heat-burn.