Ok sure, I see-- that may surely be the case, but I guess I don't see how it would help the current situation...

For some reason the first table goes down ever so slightly when I add a footnote to its last element, as a result of which only one line of the footnote is fitting on this page. And I need the two lines that I had gotten to fit there earlier, as the next page-- the final page of the section-- is tight and cannot accommodate one more line of footnote. And I can't extend this section by another page.