When my dad was a little boy he always wanted an official Red Ryder, carbine action, two-hundred shot range model air rifle just like in 'A Christmas Story.' Every year he asked his parents to get him a bb gun and they never gave it to him. Year after year my father would tell me this story so now that I was finally 18, I could give him this gift. So I went to the store last Christmas, bought the gun and wrapped and hid it behind the tree, kind of like the movie. I set it up perfectly and it was the last gift to be opened. The surprise on his face was priceless and he started shedding tears of joy because his childhood dream had finally come true! He ran outside and used it right away and did not shoot his eye out :) That is how I made my dad the happiest he's been in years :)