On the sixth day of Christmas...

I can't believe that my favorite Christmas movie came from the decade of shoulder pads, frizzy hair, and acid washed jeans. How does this happen?

A Christmas Story is a 1983 Christmas movie set in 1940, narrated by a much older Ralph Parker as he recalls his most memorable Christmas. In this particular year Ralph is nine years old and wants an official Red Ryder carbine-action 200 shot range model BB rifle with a compass in the stock for Christmas. The story is about his quest to get his BB rifle as he tells about all the events that transpired that Christmas: the Scut Farkus Affair, Chinese Christmas dinner,  and the ultimate triple dog dare.

I absolutely love this movie.

Brett had never seen it, so it was a must for our countdown this year. On Sunday, Brett went ahead and requested it from Netflix so that we would have it for sure by our sixth day. It came in the mail on Wednesday, I set it on top of the dvd player and left it there for Friday, today.

After dinner Brett put the movie in the dvd player as we got candy and pillows out to watch the movie. I'm heading back to the couch and notice that the TV is playing pretty music. I look at the dvd menu and see the title Christmas Story. I watch a few random scenes that are playing on the dvd menu and see a little boy ice skating. Then a close up of a little boy. Then something close to a winter wonderland. By now I am trying to remember what part of Ralph Parker's story had a winter wonderland in it.

I get on my Netflix account to see exactly what movie Brett ordered. It was called Christmas Story and it had no Scut Farkus Affair in the movie. It was about Santa as a kid....

Meanwhile.

Brett is in the other room and I start shouting, "You ruined the 12 days of Christmas! This is the wrong movie." He comes in to see the Netflix account and starts laughing as he realizes the mistake he made. Lucky for him our 12 days of Christmas were not completely ruined. A Christmas Story was available for instant viewing from  Netflix.

We hooked the laptop up to the TV and started day six.