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.

[Errant]

Who wants to travel alone?

[Tribune7]

ABC has to be basing the stats on in-house sampling.

[qam1]

Never leave home without

[C210N]

case in point:

[Perdogg]

I call BS. There is that “1-in-4” nonesense again.

[Kimmers]

Obviously, this man never had any man points to lose in the first place.....

and from a women's point of view I would never give my man a stuffed animal to remind him of me....that is just so middle school and secondly I would not want to date much less marry a guy that travels and sleeps with a stuffed animal.....IMO it is just weird

[SouthTexas]

the 34-year-old businessman always travels with Barkley

Charles?

[This Just In]

Obama travels with a stuffed animal? Does she approve of the description?

[RVN Airplane Driver]

BULLSHIT...

[C210N]

and this one too:

[freekitty]

I don’t believe this.

[a fool in paradise]

Stuffed frogs make the hotel self-serve bar in the fridge seem more "wild".

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

This statistical data provided by Jack Horner, of the Pulling Plums With Our Thumbs Out From Pies Research Corp.

[kcvl]

What a crock!

I don’t believe a word of it.

[maggief]

[dselig]

100% of these men are also Obama voters.

[LibWhacker]

Yes, and they’re all democrats.

[goseminoles]

Is that Michelle at Panama City Beach?

[Responsibility2nd]

Radar O'Reilly could not be reached for comment.

[sassy steel magnolia]

aw c’mon...my husband is a fierce naval aviator (now retired) and former United Airline pilot and he ALWAYS took a stuffed animal along with him that one of our three kids would give to him to remind him of us wherever he was. I know it never left his suitcase/flight bag but it made us smile at home thinking he had us along with him on the ride. Kinda like when he took “Flat Stanley” along with him in the cockpit, and my daughter later shared photos of that in her kindergarten class. I’m hoping these statistics are maybe due to other loving dads/husbands who might roll their eyes at their wives & kids but still stow the stuffed animal in their gear. That makes our husbands/dads all the more dear to us at home!