I love a good Silent Auction.
Today I found a autograph copy of an Oral Biography I been wanting for months now at a Silent Auction and got into a bidding war with one other person. As I hover over the table waiting for the Auction to end, the other bidder came up and kept trying to out bid me.
With 30 seconds to go she must have figure upping the bid to $30 would get her the book. Ha! As someone counted down the last 15 seconds, I grab a pen and place the last bid of $35. I dropped the pen as the count down ended.
My first bid was a bargain of only $18, and though the book is listed at only $24.95, having my daughters former Principle and the Author Sign the book made the book worth far more to me. The writer would take the time each year, to order books for RIF, especially just to suit their taste in reading.
As for Miss Williams, in my personal opinion, there was no better principle in the city of Baltimore while they were in school. If she saw a way to make education of her students improve, she fought like mad for it. The book mentions the white parents, who went to bat for all the children in the community and I'm proud to be one of those parents.
edit to add Daugther called to say she wants to read the book... seems she is one of the Anonymous Guests (13) on right now
Edited, Sep 17th 2006 at 7:57pm EDT by ElneClare