What can happen in one minute?

It is amazing the things that can happen during the 60 seconds that I am in the bathroom. Today it was Nolan decided to decorate our dining room table with pen. It is lovely art work, but on a solid wood table it leaves much to be desired. So now my task is to find out what will remove it. I've read online mayonnaise or the magic eraser made by the company with that bald guy. What I really need, is that bald guy to come use his muscles and get it out with good old elbow grease. I guess my last option is to sand it and re stain the whole piece. Unless somebody knows any other tricks.