How to hang up a handbag when you are seated on a bar stool, in a restaurant, home or even a public toilet

 How to hang up a handbag. I recalled that in London at a restaurant with high bar stools, I could not reach my handbag which was far below - also on the fity floor, and vulnerable to being trodden on, or stolen. The staff showed me that they had installed hooks for handbags.

I was sitting in Wine Connection in Telok Ayer, and thinking, what a pity they don't have hooks for handbags. They could attach them. Is there a suitable spot on the wooden cross board or legs. I looked under the table top and do my surprise and delight, there was a hook!

I had not thought to ask. The staff had not thought to tell me.

Now I am wondering whether this is a common feature of tables where diners have high bar stools. In future I shall look. 

If there is none, I shall suggest to the staff that such hooks should be installed, and promoted as a service by the thoughtful staff and management.

Hook for handbag or hat, underneath high tables at Wine Connection, Telok Ayer, Singapore.

Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

The alternative is to carry a folding handbag hook in your handbag. They are not expensive. They make an amusing novelty gift.

You can buy a set of four different ones for under ten dollars, to keep one for yourself and give others to family or friends or as gifts and giveaways at conferences and contests.

There are loads of amusing, pretty, or elegant designs. 

The dearest I saw was about twenty dollars from Clips which ran a video showing their device attached to the handbag strap and un folded to fasten the bag onto a table, armchair and public toilet washbasin.

Americans call them purse caddy. 

Americans use the word purse where the British would say handbag. In British English, a purse is what other versions of English would call a coin purse, or clutch bag.

Useful 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=handbags+hooks+for+table&adgrpid=153705952068&hvadid=644836291419&hvdev=c&hvlocint=9045970&hvlocphy=9062509&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=b&hvrand=2806546795560624803&hvtargid=kwd-1943649555250&hydadcr=22583_2214456&tag=googhydr-21&ref=pd_sl_6ea01nf0lx_b

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MOMENT

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How Would You Escape In A Fire?

Problem
How do you get out of a building's windows fast?
What if there are no windows?

Answers
Here's one answer.
http://www.thisisgoodgood.com/skysaver-revolutionary-self-rescue-backpack-save-fires/

But it costs a lot and only works if you have a window.

You must fix a hook to support it. OK at home. No good in a hotel, methinks.

Can you send it back up for somebody else?

What if there are no windows? I am shocked by the numbers of buildings which have no windows on the street side. The fire engine parked in the road could not rescue anybody. The people could not signal for help.

Earthquakes and flooded buildings and bombed buildings also require exits. If rubble blocks your staircase you are trapped. You need a window.

If you have to go down stairs, I would try to link myself to a vulnerable small child with a dog lead, or long scarf, so we did not become separated. You risk being slowed down. That's better than going back to look for them.

I've heard of people wrapping wet towels around their faces. How about wetting your clothes? Would that help? If you have a chance to visit a fire service or fire service website, check their advice, print it out and pin it on a notice board, along with exit from the building, so all your visitors know where to find the fire escape, external, or internal, just like a hotel.

If you are phoning friends when stuck in a fire, instead of saying, 'I love you,' how about asking for advice on what to do.

Action
It's not enough to check that the building you are in right now is safe. What about when you go shopping in the nearby mall? Who might do there? Your friends, family, neighbours, acquaintances, your doctor and your children's teacher. Local schoolchildren. Tourists. Customers. Anybody you know, or their relatives, could be in an unsafe building near you. Ask, act, ask for action.

Please check buildings in your city and write asking how people can escape and what regulations require.

Useful Website
http://www.thisisgoodgood.com/skysaver-revolutionary-self-rescue-backpack-save-fires/

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, speaker. Please share links to your favourite posts.