In the movie and book, A Christmas Story, Ralphie dreams of getting a "Red Ryder carbine-action, two hundred shot Range Model air rifle with a compass in the stock and this thing which tells time."When I was about 8-years-old, I desperately wanted a tennis racket for Christmas. My parents thought that I was too young and would never really use a tennis racket. I was so sad because I didn't think any gift-giving person in my family would respond to my tennis obsession---and so I made sure that Santa knew how much I wanted it. To my delight, I DID receive a tennis racket for Christmas. I would hit tennis balls against the side of our house for hours with that much-wanted racket. As I got older, I played tennis every chance I got. To this day, I love to play tennis and I obsessively watch tennis on television.
What is one of your happy memories of a gift given or received?