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Table Toes
Keep any cafe table from tipping
 
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Imagine the most romantic situation you have ever experienced.

As she drops to her knees, she places her cigarette on the ash tray on the little table on your patio. Her wrist momentarily presses against the edge of the table. The full moon above Montemarte illuminates the physics of sliding glass, and the cascade of hot ash.

Millions of people experience this, and still not even the most sophisticated restaurant applies more then two folds of a napkin or a wad of newspaper.

A three-footed table immediately removes wobbling, but with the addition of instability.

Table Toes can be screwed on to the feet of three- or four-footed tables, the base tangential to an imaginary circle radiating from the center. Table Toes are formed from spring-steel, and flex slightly. They are parallel to the foundation, and spread up to an extra 2 degrees on either side of each table foot. This immediately provides the stability of a 4-footed table to a 3-footed table, and additionally provides a flexible and firm grip on anything from cobblestones to earthquake-cracked concrete.

From romantic interludes on penthouse roofdecks to intellectual conversations in condemned warehouses, Table Toes will keep your wine, hors d'oeveres and ashes secure, leaving your night open and focused on romance and intrigue, with no distractions.

Previous steady table solutions involved either gauche or overly complex and unrealistic solutions. This simple 3rd party solution not only solves the problem, but allows you to keep your existing furniture.


mylodon, Oct 25 2007

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