What is on your bedside table?

[PinkieLee]

Originally Posted by DapperButch

The 5 people on this short thread who mentioned they have guns next to their bed, are all of you serious?

I guess since the whole "having the gun at the ready", is so far outside of my experience, I sometimes wonder if people are just pulling our legs and I am the only one who doesn't know this.

No judgement, it just really throws me when I read things like this.

So, was anybody kidding (maybe you, Clay?)?

Yep, I'm another person that has a gun in the nightstand. Well in the top drawer of D's nightstand.

On my nightstand:
a lamp
a coaster
ice water... every night before bed
Johnson's nighttime lotion
hair ties
jewelry that I wear every day
my glasses
and my phone... it is my alarm clock

[UofMfan]

On one side:

Reading lamp
Saline solution
Glass of water
Phone
Bottle of Zinc tablets


On the other side:

Kindle
Cell phone
Phone charger
Notebook
Pen

No gun(s) here, thank you.

[Zimmeh]

On my night table:

Crabtree & Evelyn's Nantucket Briar dusting powder
Bath & Body Works lavender and vanilla sleep lotion
Loccitane en Provance's mango shea butter hand cream
Two pictures
My iPhone 4S and charger

Zimmeh

[thedivahrrrself]

In/on my nightstand, are the following items:
A lamp
a Kleenex box
a coaster
a copy of Bureaucracy and Democracy, which helps me sleep
usually a glass of water and whatever earrings I've been wearing that day
the only item I've ever owned made of real fur
a headset for sleeping with the phone on
some Burt's Bees for my lips
and a loaded .38 which I hope I'll never have to use.

[clay]

pistol packin' ladies...hawtttttt

[Blade]

I don't have a bedside table I have a bookcase head board. Items include but are not limited to....My Bible, Qtips, kleenex, remote controls, water bottle, fan, lamp, dust, a pistol and my hat

[Ginger]

Oh yeah and I forgot to add ... next to the Ikea lamp with the paper shade on my night table there's my Glock 19, my LadySmith Revolver (it's corny but I like corny), my Baretta 92F, my pretty little Ruger, my 38 Special (that was actually my first), my Taurus Small Frame Revolver, my sweet little S&W M37, my Kahr K9, my heavily customized Kahr E9 (which is starting to bore me), my Taurus PT111 (I just keep it for nostalgic reasons), my EG Makarov, and my good old Glock 27.

Okay just kidding. I don't have a gun, though I grew up visiting my grandparents' farms and ranches where everyone had rifles, because they needed them for taking care of wild things that might menace the chickens or calves. And then my parents had guns, and I think my sister does, but I'm not sure. Oh and I had a lover who had a rifle, and she kept it on the floor by the mattress in a cabin we slept in sometimes upstate.

I think I'm processing how it feels to learn so many people here on the Planet say they have guns.

So I tried saying it too to see how it felt, and kind of rolled the gun talk around in my mouth and played with it, which is of course a silly thing to do. I'll never get a gun, but I do like the vocabulary of small arms.

[firegal]

Originally Posted by IslandScout

Oh yeah and I forgot to add ... next to the Ikea lamp with the paper shade on my night table there's my Glock 19, my LadySmith Revolver (it's corny but I like corny), my Baretta 92F, my pretty little Ruger, my 38 Special (that was actually my first), my Taurus Small Frame Revolver, my sweet little S&W M37, my Kahr K9, my heavily customized Kahr E9 (which is starting to bore me), my Taurus PT111 (I just keep it for nostalgic reasons), my EG Makarov, and my good old Glock 27.

Okay just kidding. I don't have a gun, though I grew up visiting my grandparents' farms and ranches where everyone had rifles, because they needed them for taking care of wild things that might menace the chickens or calves. And then my parents had guns, and I think my sister does, but I'm not sure. Oh and I had a lover who had a rifle, and she kept it on the floor by the mattress in a cabin we slept in sometimes upstate.

I think I'm processing how it feels to learn so many people here on the Planet say they have guns.

So I tried saying it too to see how it felt, and kind of rolled the gun talk around in my mouth and played with it, which is of course a silly thing to do. I'll never get a gun, but I do like the vocabulary of small arms.

My first thought was....DUCK! You had me going. Were you Cagney or Lacey?

[Guy]

What is on my nightstand?

My nook

An Angel nightlight that my sister gave to me, to remind me that my Mom is close by.

Dvd remote and the TV remote

Landline telephone

and on Her side,

cell phone

clock radio

a candle

the ceiling fan remote

and a scuba piggy bank

[JAGG]

Originally Posted by IslandScout

Oh yeah and I forgot to add ... next to the Ikea lamp with the paper shade on my night table there's my Glock 19, my LadySmith Revolver (it's corny but I like corny), my Baretta 92F, my pretty little Ruger, my 38 Special (that was actually my first), my Taurus Small Frame Revolver, my sweet little S&W M37, my Kahr K9, my heavily customized Kahr E9 (which is starting to bore me), my Taurus PT111 (I just keep it for nostalgic reasons), my EG Makarov, and my good old Glock 27.

Okay just kidding. I don't have a gun, though I grew up visiting my grandparents' farms and ranches where everyone had rifles, because they needed them for taking care of wild things that might menace the chickens or calves. And then my parents had guns, and I think my sister does, but I'm not sure. Oh and I had a lover who had a rifle, and she kept it on the floor by the mattress in a cabin we slept in sometimes upstate.

I think I'm processing how it feels to learn so many people here on the Planet say they have guns.

So I tried saying it too to see how it felt, and kind of rolled the gun talk around in my mouth and played with it, which is of course a silly thing to do. I'll never get a gun, but I do like the vocabulary of small arms.

Island scout you crack me up.

[Bleu]

Originally Posted by IslandScout

...the vocabulary of small arms.

Sounds like the title of a good book!

xo~Bleu

[WingsOnFire]

my inhaler.. my cpap machine.. various glasses of water depending on the day and if I have taken them back to the kitchen.. and my phone at bedtime

[Chancie]

I have a lamp that I got at the transfer station, a small pretty box of tissues, a clock radio that has seen better days, and a book I have read about a gazillion times, so relaxing at the end of the day!

[Lady Pamela]

Lamp, TAO Oricle Cards, Coffee, Phone, Computer monitor, Blood Presure cuff

[Bard]

well add me to the gun club.. my off duty is in my night stand second shelf
40 cal S&W
on the night stand ..
alarm clock
small lamp
stack of books about 5 right now
jar that Desd put my pens change and chapstick in
bottle of water
crumpled recipets
glasses and cell phone

and a special love note from Desd

[laruss]

My bedside table (keep in mind I am not in my own home)
Kobo
Book
Cell phone plugged into charger
Floss picks
Home phone
Phone case (not on phone??)
Box of Makeup (which is all my dressup make up, not my day to day make up)
Hand lotion
Foot lotion
Body lotion
4 perfumes
Water bottle
Coffee cup
Case for my splint (I'm wearing said splint as I grind my teeth)
Muscle relaxants
Tums
Cold FX
Pen
Lamp
Stereo
Kobo cord
Vibrator
Batteries
Box of kleenex
Nail file x 2
A whole bunch of stuff that doesnt belong to me on the bottom shelf (there are 3 shelves)

In my bed
My Mac laptop
My PC laptop
2 Magazines
Oh my god can you tell I am single??

I have to say I do not have a gun, I am a Canadian, we don't need guns. I know some Canadians who have them, but we also have laws about gun cases and such so they would never (legally) be beside the bed.
I would also never be in a bed that had one in or on the nightstand, In fact I don't even like the idea of being in a home that has guns in a a gun case. I guess having one put in your face when younger and being threatened with death will do that to you.