It seems like every year, whenever I ask my brother-in-law in Tennessee about what to get him for his birthday, for Christmas or just for being a great host when I visit in the summer, Bart always says, “You know, just get me something I can’t get here.”

It doesn’t have to be anything expensive, he tells me. It doesn’t have to be anything difficult -- just different from what he can find at his neighborhood Walgreen’s.

Money really isn’t an object for Bart. He’s an orthopedic surgeon and does very well for his family. He has a house on a lake. He has all the streaming channels. His children have been to see Taylor Swift.

If my brother-in-law wants something, he can mostly just buy it without thinking too hard about it.

Because he can have just about any normal thing he can imagine, wha

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