Somebody at a garage sale in Dayton told me "the knots are the easy part" and now I can't stop thinking about my cable box

Uma Lopez · 2026-10-25T17:50:03.521694+00:00

I was digging through a bin of old extension cords at a garage sale in Dayton last Saturday and the guy running it said the knots are easy, it's the untangling people give up on. He was talking about his fishing line but I stood there holding a $2 cord thinking about the nest behind my TV stand. So I went home and pulled everything out, found 3 dead chargers, and realized I'd been treating tangled cords like a mystery when really I just didn't want to unplug anything. I grabbed a $6 pack of velcro ties and had the whole thing sorted in 40 minutes. What's the worst knot you've ever given up on and just shoved in a drawer?

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