My son's birthday coming soon. He wants a seven foot stuffed shark, body pillow.
I do not get it.
Your son is cool.
...and I also know damn well if mine saw something like that he'd want one too. 
My wife is clever.
When my son was about seven, he wanted to go as a T-rex for Halloween.
She managed to find this T-rex costume in two parts for him. Funny thing is when he first tried it on he had the pants part with the big tail on backwards, so it looked like he was walking around with this massive, curved, pointed hard-on. Of course we failed at trying to NOT laugh. Getting it on the right way he had a blast and turned into a T-rex. Wore it often for over a month.
The cleverness of my wife's artistic interests came in when he had just about outgrown the damn thing. Instead of throwing it away she cleaned it up nicely with dry cleaning products, over stuffed it with acrylic pillow stuff, sewed it all together and gave it to him for Christmas as his first full body pillow. He loved it!
A couple of years later she spent half of a year making him a weighted blanket. It was supposed to help. It did.
But it was a hell of a lot of effort for a loving mom, sewing two blankets together with little pockets full of aquarium gravel between them. He still uses it.
A couple of years later still, he was too big to fit his T-rex pillow and so she sewed him up a regular looking giant, five foot and some, leopard skin looking body pillow. He still uses it, but it is "too small."
Now he found this shark, showed us where to get it, etc. It has arrived in time for his birthday this week end.
He has been a fan of full body pillows since he was a child with a re-purposed Halloween costume that resembled a dinosaur.
I just do not get why a "man" turning twenty years of age wants a shark toy looking full body pillow.
