I'm sorry to report that I have diagnosed myself with a newly discovered form of stupidity.

[LuckyCharms]

I do a lot of work with my hands. Sometimes I do some very difficult stuff with my hands.

However, I will turn into a temper throwing toddler if I have to do anything with a rope, hose, string, long extension cord, etc.

Try to untangle any of those? I fuck it up.

Try to neatly wind up any of those? I fuck it up.

Try to tie any of those? I fuck it up.

I don't feel like an adult when confronted with these monstrous items.

[underpants]

1. It's just knot your thing.

I....yeah... I’ll show myself out.

[LuckyCharms]

2. .

I'm not sure what you're getting at, but your response made me

[LuckyCharms]

3. Ohhh now I get it!

It's a pun!

I'm stupid with those things too.

[underpants]

5. Strings knots ropes tangles

That’s sort of thing.

[LuckyCharms]

8. When I didn't have my hair short

and I got a tangle that I could not comb out, I would start screeching in anger like a wild animal.

[Wounded Bear]

23. That's why they inveted scissors...

you thought they were for sewing?

[Shermann]

4. Actually knots are a good way to organize some cables

Fold them into around three foot lengths, then gently tie them in a knot.

This works great for computer cables, power cables, audio cables, etc.

[LuckyCharms]

6. I can't do stuff like that.

I'm dead serious.

I always mess it up.

[CurtEastPoint]

7. OMG I AM HOWLING because I do the SAME FUCKING THING!

As Mommie Dearest said, when arguing with Christina: "Why must EVERYTHING be a contest?" Every fucking thing I pick up, I drop. I'm exaggerating but it feels that way. Or falls on the floor. The other night I filled my nightly cup of warm water for the waterfloss thingie and went to dump it in the tank and hit my hand and dumped half of it in the hair dryer. Bzzzzzzzzz! LOL!

[LuckyCharms]

10. My wife...

EXACT same way. I hear thumping noises at least 20 times a day because she drops things.

I ignore it unless she shatters some glass on the floor. I have to clean that up myself because she does a half-assed job and I'm finding shards of glass all over the place for months.

Be careful with that water and electricity!

[I_UndergroundPanther]

17. I feel for you

Because I drop things way too much,and spill stuff,I get frustrated and my cat Othello runs out of the room sometimes. Than I feel like shit on top of being mad as a murder hornet.

[CurtEastPoint]

19. omg my poor cats... they are like WTF when I yell "GD IT" or "F..." 10 times a day!

[happybird]

9. My first job was at a nursery/garden center

and my boss was crazy about proper hose care and coiling. We all got surprisingly lengthy training on how to coil and untangle hoses. It’s a lesson a never I forgot, and my hose prowess served me well when I got older and started dating musicians. They were always impressed with how quickly I could neatly wrangle all the cables at the end of the night, lol!

[LuckyCharms]

11. Well, my

hose prowess sucks.

All joking aside, I finally learned how to wrap up a 100 foot extension cord. When you coil it, you have to do kind of a backwards hand shake.

I admire you for your ability to coil hoses.

In my case, hoses can fuck right off.

[happybird]

12. ...

[Diamond_Dog]

13. My hubby can untangle a bird's nest of fishing line.

He’s amazing.

[LuckyCharms]

14. Great. Now I feel

even more diminished.

Just joking!

[Diamond_Dog]

15. Don't feel bad, Lucky.

His patience knows no bounds for all things fishing, but he and I are basically pretty clumsy at home.

[Walleye]

18. It is nice to find a fellow sufferer in this. Everything is an ordeal with me

Such as the wire on the earbuds. Straps on cameras will get tied in hopeless knots. I find myself talking about myself in the third person, “how does she do it?”

[lastlib]

20. The perversity of inanimate objects never ceases to amaze me.

I absolutely HATE it when I get outsmarted by inanimate objects.

[LuckyCharms]

27. When I worked construction years ago...

The foreman would always yell BE SMARTER THAN THE TOOL YOU ARE USING.

That guy was a real tool.

[Harker]

21. It's all in the wrist. n/t

[LuckyCharms]

26. Truer words were never spoken.

[Harker]

22. Try Crest toothpaste. n/t

[malthaussen]

24. my OCD loves stuff like that.

As long as I can sit down and concentrate on it.

-- Mal

[CloudWatcher]

25. over-under!

The over-under technique is absolutely the way to go! Seems silly, but it keeps the damn things from getting tangled. Wish I'd learned this a lot sooner!