Are you tired of your companion flitting off to various distractions during dinner? Appeal to their considerate side with the Courtesy Table, designed by Dutch designer Marleen Jansen. Can you guess how it works?
If one party gets up, the other one falls to the ground! It's basically a seesaw apparatus underneath the table. However, this really only works if your dining companion cares that you're falling on your behind every time they leave the table. If they're completely unfeeling, well, then you're left with plenty of bruises and not much else!
Ok, ok. So this is totally impractical. But it made me chuckle!
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(Images: Marleen Jansen via kidsroomzoom)
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Hah! I love it.
Oh the fun this would be Where can I get one?
So, you get punished if your dining companion is not curteous? How is that fair? It is funny, though.
If only it could keep my dining companions from playing games on their phones at the table.
@Alicelost--easy, just stand up every time your dining companion touches their phone.
ha ha, lol CourtneyL!
HA! that is priceless! i like the idea of standing up every time someone touches their phone... :)