Why You Should Stop Wasting Your Time Finding Outside-the-Box Gifts
My friend Jerry must have thought I was an ungrateful brat when I failed to show excitement over his Christmas gift: an industrial-looking green raincoat that seemed like it came from a literal old navy store.
It was 1995, my last year in England as a graduate student, and Jerry had noticed that I didn’t own a raincoat — quite an oversight on my part in a country where sunny days are undeclared national holidays. “You’re always wet,” he’d say as he