I once brought an air-soft-gun to a female friend of mine, not really expecting her to care too much, I kind of hoped she would find it amusing enough (I brought a Glock 17 replica)
She found herself completely spellbound by it. For hours she would just sit and aim it in the air, load, pull the trigger, and repeat, completely in love with the power.
Anecdotal true story:
On my way home from there, a long distance bus, I had packed my bags, the plastic Glock on top of all my clothes, right beneath the bag's zipper.
I fall asleep on the bus, and wake up, all groggy, glancing at someone sitting by my feet, between seats, over my opened bag, robbing me right in front of my eyes
EXCEPT
He is looking right at my... Glock :'D Then at me. Then back at the Glock. I'm still too sleepy to fully comprehend what's going on, we're talking a second or two since I even opened my eyes, so all I really do is stare back.
He backs away slowly, goes back to his friend, both of whom I noticed when getting on the bus. And both of them get off at the next stop, which was in the middle of absolute nowhere
It wasnt untill after they had gotten off, that I slowly begun to piece together wtf had just happened