SPEAKING OF REGRETS . . .

Can you remember the best gift you got last Christmas? Can you remember any gift? According to “experience-gift-site” Excitations.com, some 41% of people can’t recall one, either. Which makes sense: Excitations is in the business of providing “experiential” gifts where the recipient has to actually go out and DO something. Such as? “Skydiving, gourmet cooking lessons, whitewater rafting, wolf watching, etc.,” they say in a release. Not a bad idea, but you should REALLY know your recipient. If someone gave us a skydiving trip as a gift, we’d have to wonder what they were really thinking. “Here, this is for you. Go up 10,000 feet and jump out of a perfectly good airplane.” Uhh, gee, thanks?