Someone broke into my shop last night

Trace Oswald wrote:I'm just joking guys. I'm sure I got it all knotted up carrying it back in after working on the chicken coop. Just makes me laugh that, no matter how carefully I try to gather up an extension cord, the next day when I try to use it, it will be a mess.

Jay Angler wrote:Terry Pratchett had sentient luggage and my son's been reading a book whose main character is a sentient chest, so I'll go with Pearl's explanation!

Mike Haasl wrote:I generally dislike ropes, extension cords and hoses for that exact reason.  Not enough to come up with a good system to keep them from knotting but enough to bitch about it all the time.

Trace Oswald wrote:

Mike Haasl wrote:I generally dislike ropes, extension cords and hoses for that exact reason.  Not enough to come up with a good system to keep them from knotting but enough to bitch about it all the time.

Lol, that's me exactly.

Carla Burke wrote:I create and implement systems for organizing things like that, that are ingenious. Then, they get used again, not put away 'properly', and I bitch about my systems not being used. Annnnd... ahem. I'm often (not always) the one that doesn't take the time to put them away properly.

Jay Angler wrote:

Carla Burke wrote:I create and implement systems for organizing things like that, that are ingenious. Then, they get used again, not put away 'properly', and I bitch about my systems not being used. Annnnd... ahem. I'm often (not always) the one that doesn't take the time to put them away properly.

Then Hubby bitches and complains that my method takes too long - he just wraps it around his arm and it tangles up like a slinky falling off a cliff.

Pearl Sutton wrote:

Jay Angler wrote:

And I adore the luggage.
I've used it for internet security questions, "Model of your first car" "The Luggage"   :D

Just out of curiosity...  which bank are you with? And what's your mother's maiden name?

Michael Cox wrote:

Pearl Sutton wrote:

And I adore the luggage.
I've used it for internet security questions, "Model of your first car" "The Luggage"   :D

Just out of curiosity...  which bank are you with? And what's your mother's maiden name?

Pearl Sutton wrote:There is a theory out there that garden hoses and bicycles are mortal enemies, and if you put them in the same shed together, they will fight, which is why when you look, they are all tangled up.

Kenneth Elwell wrote:
Second, like the gaffers do it. One coil over-hand, the next under-hand, repeat until done. Chant "overworked, underpaid,..." while doing it...  This is also a great way to prepare to cast that cord out (across the floor, over a limb...) without it falling in a tangled ball partway there. The main benefit is you never kink the cable, so it will always lay flat on the floor again (important for microphone cables, etc...)

Kenneth Elwell wrote:
First, like they make and sell it. Rolled up on a reel, but by spinning the reel not casting it over the end by hand, that's basically the same as the "around the elbow" but on a reel.

Second, like the gaffers do it. One coil over-hand, the next under-hand, repeat until done.