Caren Krutsinger Poet Prose Poetry

Sueann Wins the Bet

I won these at the auction, SueAnn said.
They only cost me six hundred dollars!
EACH? I screeched.
“No, silly, the pair.”
“I thought they started at $38.”

“They did, but someone kept bidding them up.”
Later that day I met SueAnn's mother.
“I tried to get those mermaids for my daughter”, she said.
“But they went way too high. I had to drop out.”
I did not tell her who she was bidding against

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L Milton Hankins April 5, 2022 at 10:56 AM Talk about crazy! In my opinion SueAnn is right up there with the best of them. Please don't tell me they were sitting together. (chuckling) Caren Krutsinger April 5, 2022 at 11:18 AM No - it was my husband and my daughter; he gave up and she won the bid - they were both bidding on a lot of things for her little 5 year old son.