Bedtime Story: 1-in-4 Grown Men Travel With a Stuffed Animal

ABC News ^ | August 24, 2010 | SCOTT MAYEROWITZ

[libstripper]

When Scott Hardy hits the road, he always makes sure to leave room in his suitcase for his stuffed animal.

That's right, the 34-year-old businessman always travels with Barkley, a stuffed beagle. No, it's not for his two daughters. No he doesn't sleep with a nightlight and no he isn't smuggling drugs.

Seven years ago Hardy's then girlfriend, now wife, gave him the doggie as a reminder of her.

"I travel enough that it's a nice reminder of home," said Hardy who runs an online legal notice company, Top Class Actions.

[libstripper]

Traveling or sleeping with a stuffed animal? Now when it comes to sleeping with one 8 pound cat and two dogs, one 65b lb. and one 85 lb., that's a bit different. Funny how each one constantly tries to disprove the scientific fact that no two objects can simulatneously occupy the same space, even when it's part of a bed..

[tallyhoe]

What? Are we a bunch of whimps?

[Red in Blue PA]

Bravo Sierra!

5% perhaps, but 25%? No way!

[Howie66]

That would be the “GenXers”, right?

[Amberdawn]

I hug a pillow-does that count?

[San Jacinto]

Sure. The big stuffed gorilla helps out when you want to drive in the HOV lane.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Sometimes my young daughter has put a stuffed animal in my bag “to keep me company” when I am on a trip. But I don’t sleep with it.

[KarlInOhio]

Stuffed animal/inflatable doll. Some people are so judgmental. :-)

Seriously, I have my doubts about the accuracy of the statistic... but then I do with anything the MSM says.

[LukeL]

Does a hearse driver get to use the HOV lane?

[toast]

Not unless they count headphones as a stuffed animal.

[a fool in paradise]

I hug a pillow-does that count?

[jwalsh07]

Calling BS on this futher effort to feminize American men.

[Responsibility2nd]

"Those aren't pillows!"

[a fool in paradise]

Do members of the mob sleep with stuffed horse heads in bed?

[Haiku Guy]

I travel with a stuffed squirrel because my daughter puts it in my bag. It gives us something to talk about when I call home, and she gets to hear about squirrely adventures when I get home.

You got a problem with that?

[RinaseaofDs]

“I hug a pillow-does that count?”

As long as the men in your life aren’t biting the pillow . .

[exist]

Ya. If by stuffed animal you mean porno.

[dfwgator]

[a fool in paradise]

That answers that.

[Responsibility2nd]

CARRIED TO THE EXTREME.....
Man marries pillow
metro.co.uk ^ | March 9, 2010 | Tom Phillips

Posted on Tuesday, March 09, 2010 9:12:35 PM by Free ThinkerNY

True love can take many forms. In this case, it has taken the form of a Korean man falling in love with, and eventually marrying, a large pillow with a picture of a woman on it.

Lee Jin-gyu fell for his 'dakimakura' - a kind of large, huggable pillow from Japan, often with a picture of a popular anime character printed on the side.

In Lee's case, his beloved pillow has an image of Fate Testarossa, from the 'magical girl' anime series Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha.

Now the 28-year-old otaku (a Japanese term that roughly translates to somewhere between 'obsessive' and 'nerd') has wed the pillow in a special ceremony, after fitting it out with a wedding dress for the service in front of a local priest. Their nuptials were eagerly chronicled by the local media.

'He is completely obsessed with this pillow and takes it everywhere,' said one friend.

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