Side Table

On my new deck, I have a couple Adirondack lounge chairs (plastic) where I like to sit and read.  I need a table next to the chair for my frosty beverage, and a place to put my book and/or iPad and glasses.  

I would like to imagine I'm not alone in this.

But among deck furniture manufacturers, the idea of a dedicated side table is apparently foreign.  I checked several websites including Amazon, and although there are many TABLES available -- most of them way too high in height and price -- there were exactly *zero* simple side tables with a recessed cup holder.

There were a couple cheap plastic accessories designed to clip onto folding deck chairs (the reviews said they didn't work).  There were some wicker basket tables, some folding wooden tables, some four hundred dollar Martha Stewart Living tables -- but absolutely zip of what I was looking for.

So I built one today, out of leftover decking.  It's ugly as a mud fence but it's exactly what I had in mind.

NoCoPilot wrote:

...with a recessed cup holder.

The cup holder was the first sign of the coming end of western civilization.

I thought that was Katy Perry.

I had to look her up on google. Never heard of her.

She comes with two cup holders.

Hey now. First of all Katy Perry is awesome.
Second get one of these table mate things like I have. It's adjustable with a slide out cup holder and can be flat or tilted for holding a book. https://www.tvitems.com/Product/Details/9954dc76-4bc6-e311-93f1-a0369f1303c6
It was about 20 bucks at the local "Bed, Bath, and Beyond Useless."

Yeah, that would be useful.  Fortunately (un?) i bought my mother a $200 overbed table which I inherited when she passed.  Does about the same thing.  Use it every day.
Caption: I'm so awesome.

200? Um, great?

Make fun if you like but I will forever think fondly of Perry because a) she managed to break away from her parents crazy religiousness at a young age and b) her song "I kissed a girl" prompted meaningful conversation between my daughter and I about feminine sexuality.