I hope you had a thrill for Christmas. You know, a swim with crocodiles, dolphins, sharks, silverfish or sky diving, bungy diving, jet fighter flying, V8 driving, rally driving or radical driving.
If you did, you probably bought it through one of the two companies, Adrenalin and Red Balloon, that dominate the experience industry.
Anyway, last month I bought the Hi-Tech Drift School Level 1 experience for $289 direct from the supplier so all margin for Mr Hi-Tech. Luckily the action was on the skidpan on my local track, Eastern Creek.
It was a very warm Saturday and the resource recovery stinks were wafting over the skidpan mixing with the scent of a sweaty group waiting for the Fast and Furious experience.
Despite my name starting with C, I was last on the very long list of students. After 45 minutes of waiting I hopped in a Toyota 86 with a seriously good instructor and we did a few handbrake turns. I spun so many times my instructor went very green.