I am, by most accounts, not an exceptionally stupid person. I don’t believe I have unreasonable expectations in life.
So why in the name of all that is Holy have I been reduced to an hysterical gibbering wreck by the simple act of trying to untangle freakin’ Christmas tree fairy lights?
As far as I can make out, the BRAND NEW Christmas lights we bought at the weekend were packaged by Mr McKnotty - a disciple of the same people who designed the Tetra-Pak and those dog food bags with the string on the top that I can never ever ever get to undo properly.
Bored by the understandable seasonal drops in business, I can only guess that Mr McKnotty has spent the last year devising a system for ensuring that no matter which way you approach undoing his carefully packaged lights, it will result in a mess so convoluted that your average Neuro-Surgeon would have problems figuring out which bit goes where!
I even had to take the plug of one set to try and get them untangled!
So in the spirit of Christmas, I pit thee Mr McKnotty and your stupid bloody lights!
Right - that’s better - I’m off for a stiff drink
And in advance - can I wish all you Dopers a very merry Christmas
which it won’t be for Mr Mcknotty if I ever get my hands on him … grrrrr
Spooky… I was going to rant about just this yesterday…but I was busy with the *#&$% CHRISTMAS LIGHTS!!!
What it comes down to is that I am now sending someone out to buy new strands…see, I have THREE, count 'em, THREE strands of lights that only exactly light up HALF WAY. I have replaced every bulb in one strand and it did not improve the number of lighted bulbs on that strand by even one!! AARGH!
So, the good news is, that my husband works in this office, and I was able to talk him into going to Rite Aid or something to purchase some of Mr. McKnotty’s product.
Are you kidding? This is one of the funnest things in the world to do! I love just sitting down with a HUGE ball of tangles lights, hell its even better if I have no clue how many different sets of lights are in the ball!
You know, it starts out all playful, kind of a like a puzzle… you think “eh, I’ll get it done eventually, how hard can it be?”. Oh, it can be hard… let me tell you. Eventually you end up just grabbing a cord on each side of the ball and pulling as HARD as you can in opposite directions. Unfortunately now all that’s happened is that the ball has become smaller, more compact and now you can’t even pull the wires apart to begin detangling them.
I love it… THANKs you to whoever created the technique for packing christmas lights!
