If the short stack was not a fishy type, I would not have made the call. But they were raising some horrible starting hands and just suffered a big loss (because of their poor hand selection). If figured they said "what the hay".

One thing I left out was my wife saying, "check/fold". I showed her who is boss.

I don't mind not winning the hand. I'm happier I didn't get called on my bluff. I think it worked because I didn't go AI. If I went AI, I think they would have sniffed steal.