I'm interested to see how DU Men stack up - 1-in-4 Grown Men Travel With a Stuffed Animal

[LynneSin]

http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/grown-men-travel-stuffed-animals-teddy-bears-dogs/story?id=11463664

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

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


As many as one in every four grown men have a teddy bear or other stuffed animal tucked away in their suitcase, according to a new study. Scott Hardy, 34, is one of them, traveling with Barkley, a stuffed beagle his wife gave him when they were dating.
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.

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BTW I use to travel and sleep with my stuffed animal but it's in such a state of disrepair that now Lobo just sits on my dresser and watches over me as I sleep.

[Forkboy]

1. I have a huge stuffed spider (named Timmy), but I don't travel with the guy.

:)

[madinmaryland]

2. no comment.

:P

[Forkboy]

3. Which makes this your best post yet!

:hide:

:)

[madinmaryland]

5. ...

I knew that you were a closeted San Francisco Giant and Tim Lincicum fan!!

:D

[KamaAina]

7. There are no closeted Giant fans

their legions of gay fans are out, loud and proud!

And The Freak's name is Lincecum. :P

[madinmaryland]

12. Huh??

Where did I say that he was a gay Frisco fan, as if i would even know or care??

I get Lincecum and Linthicum, MD mixed up all the time!!

:rofl:

[Forkboy]

23. LOL...the name Timmy has been a quarter century running joke for my friend and I.

This is a postcard he made a few years back....

It had this picture on the front....


With this written on it....

"The merriest from mine to yours. Love, The Timmys."

He then included a bunch of X's and O's, but made it out like a football diagram, a pass play to the slot reciever (he actually had too many men on the field, as there's 12 O's).

It continued on the back....

"Dear Steve,
A lot has happened since I saw you last. I got a good case of head lice, so you might want to shave your head, too. The herpes sore went away, so that is good news for both of us! I miss you so shlong.

P.S. I hope you don't have a nosey postman...

Love, Timmy."

This is the kind of friends I have lol. :)

[MiddleFingerMom]

4. Years ago, I would try to bring my own meals on a flight...

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...as airline food is SO bad. A few times, that
was my version of Chicken Cordon Bleu -- chicken
stuffed with ham and swiss and green olives.
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Technically, I guess that qualifies me as being
one of those men.
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Although the anal retentive might quibble that a
chicken is a bird... and not an "animal"
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Bring it on.
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[mcollins]

6. Um.........no.

I used to have a Penguin from Bloom County that traveled a bit with me, but no more.

[Bennyboy]

8. I have a fish hat, does that count?

Stuffed animal fish on a hat.

[rug]

9. Stuffed with what?

[Tobin S.]

10. I travel with a blow up doll.

[edbermac]

25. Damn! You beat me to it!

To coin a phrase...:rofl:

[Rabrrrrrr]

11. I have no stuffed animals. I do not travel with a stuffed animal.

But I have no problem with men who do.

[petronius]

13. Nope, no stuffed animal. But I will take my own pillowcase...

[old mark]

14. No animal, but I have a stuffed large red heart, valentine style, that they gave me

when I had bypass surgery. People who have residual pain after that surgery sometimes feel more comfortable clasping the heart to their chest...I still have aches almost 7 years afterwards...

I hate to travel, and seldom do, but I'd certainly take it along...

mark

[cbdo2007]

15. No. The last thing they need to find in my bag at the airport is my stuffed Gooey Duck!

Sure, I may have stuffed animals, but no reason to travel with them.

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

16. Hubby loved them

I thought it was just a German man thing but apparently not. I took his two favorites to the hospital when he was in a coma and put them on the pillow next to him.

It is a very endearing thing to know that a grown man has such a soft heart, to love a stuffed animal and want to snuggle with it.

[GreenPartyVoter]

17. That is very endearing, indeed. *hugs*

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

20. Thanks

GPV. *hugs back*

[Bertha Venation]

28. Notorious

:hug:

[Kali]

34. something in my eye

allergies too

[Fleshdancer]

18. Awwww, I think that's kind of adorable

I had no idea this was something some men did.

My parents use to play pranks on each other when one of them had to go on a business trip by placing highly embarrassing things in their suitcases. I need to start doing that to my husband...you know, make a tradition out of it. :)

[Bunny]

19. That's cute.

[BurtWorm]

21. Another 2 out of four actually are stuffed animals.

Little known fact.

[Bucky]

22. I don't believe that statistic

(Unless you count toupees)

[Curmudgeoness]

29. I'm with you. There is no way this is right. Maybe it was just

guys having fun with a pollster. Or maybe the pollster was a babe who seemed to be attracted to guys who traveled with stuffed animals. But there is just no way this is true.

[TroglodyteScholar]

24. Sorry, no.

My ex-wife did, though.

Ugh, that fucking penguin.

[struggle4progress]

26. I haven't had a stuffed animal since grade school. But I guess I should go out and get one

to keep in my car to fool the hot chicks into thinking I'm a sensitive kind of guy :D

[av8rdave]

27. Not me...though I often order stuffed halibut for dinner

[realisticphish]

30. I don't travel with one

but I do have a stuffed weasel. Kind of an in-joke. And I guess my cat is "stuffed" after he eats :shrug:

[Chan790]

31. I don't travel.

But if I did...my moose and I go everywhere together.

[quakerboy]

32. If I had a chance to travel...

No stuffed animal. I need too many pillows while using a foreign bed to have any room for frivolities such as stuffed animals. Though I do love my sleeping bag, which has the same basic construction as a stuffed animal, albeit with less fake fur. Does that count?

[triguy46]

33. I detect the odor of bullshit.