Bag Ottomans & Table Hooks.

Last night, The Husband took me to dinner at a restaurant in our neighborhood.

It was okay... The service was decent. The food, passable. The prices, absurd for the quality. But I did see one thing that pleased me...

Bag ottomans at every table!

Very chic and thoughtful! I hate having to put my bag on the floor or hang it off my chair back, where it can easily be pick-pocketed. But this is the only establishment I have ever come across that has had these. So unless I want to eat sub-par food at high prices, I won't be dining at places that offer these.

But I have now discovered something amazing to help me with my dilemma.

Last weekend, while in NYC, my travel writer friend introduced me to something I had never seen before...

Table hooks!

It's a little contraption you store in your purse, and it unfolds and creates a stable hook on a table to hang your bag.

GENIUS!

Apparently, these have been around for a while. However, I hadn't known about them. It took my friend to introduce them to me. Normally, it is I who introduces her to fashion-y things. But this time, she hooked me up.

Literally.