I couldn't believe my own ears. Tinkertoys? She'd never buy it.

6 seconds sound clip from the A Christmas Story (1983) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:08:15 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- That deadly phrase uttered many times before by hundreds of mothers was not surmountable by any means known to Kid-dom.

- But such was my mania, my desire for a Red Ryder carbine, that I immediately began to rebuild the dike.

- I was just kidding.

- Even though Flick is getting one.

- I guess I'd just like some Tinkertoys.

- I couldn't believe my own ears. Tinkertoys? She'd never buy it.

- BB guns are dangerous. I don't want anybody shooting his eye out.

- Randy, will you eat? There are starving people in China.

(RANDY GROANS)

- Mothers know nothing about creeping marauders burrowing through the snow toward the kitchen where only you and you alone stand between your tiny, huddled family and insensate evil.

[...]