What is on your bedside table?

[Sparkle]

Originally Posted by honeybarbara

No, it's not just you. I mainly talk with people in the UK, Canada, Australia, NZ, Holland and Greece. Guns aren't part of their cultures however canada/australia people have hunting rifles. The upper class in the UK have hunting rifles if they "go on a shoot" but you have to be pretty damn upper class for that.

So I never, ever hear them even mentioned. Haven't really hung around american boards much past few years so just kinda forgot about that concept. So yeah, it was a bit "oh yeah." to read it - sort of like having a distant cousin that talks about raising ostriches for meat. Outside of experience by a landslide.

Even as an American from a working class family that hunted, having fire arms for personal protection purposes is *far far* outside of my experience.

I'm genuinely interested in other peoples' experiences and in understanding the cultural differences that define either side of the issue. I am working on a thread on the topic, in a survey type format, to be posted later when I'm not at work.

[Bard]

for me it is a part of who I am and what I do as a cop I put people in jail they do not always like it and it really ain't hard to find where we live my off duty weapon is at close hand but not just laying about, also when I am at work I want to be sure Desd is safe my dad was a cop and I remember a person he had arrested came to our hose when I was bout 11 I was the only one home I hid under the bed with his service weapon

[Medusa]

My Kindle, a journal, and 2 books in a stack
a leather-scented candle
an egyptian perfume bottle
a small antique trinket-box with a few pieces of jewelry
a lamp
a stack of papers that I am reading through for my final in one of my classes
La Perla hand lotion

It would take me all night to tell you what's inside my night stand because it's a huge 3-drawer monster but most of the contents revolve around"
pens and highlighters
journals
hair clips
sudoku books
my other Kindle
more books
the bottom drawer contains special things like old letters and mementos

[julieisafemme]

A tiny silver lamp
A huge pile of magazines and books
Readers! Yes I forgot about those. *sigh*
A water glass
A small blue glass bowl with hair bobs, lip balm, cuticle cream and earrings
Sometimes a rattie or two

[GeorgiaMa'am]

Kindle and charger
Book light
Cell phone and charger
vibrator
lighted pedestal mirror with 5x and 10x magnification (also used as a lamp)
tweezers
assorted face creams in a little box
Curel hand lotion
water bottles, empty and half-empty, covering every remaining bit of surface

-Georgia

[Liam]

Lots of dust.