Jerome Klapka Jerome. Three men in a boat, not counting the dog (№ 293888)

Strange and inconceivable thing - twine. You stack her rings with such great patience and caution as if you were folding a new pair of pants, and five minutes later, you take her, she has turned into some horrible, hideous tangle.
I don't want to be the accuser, but I firmly believe that if you take the most ordinary twine, pulling it on level ground in a straight line, turn my back for thirty seconds and then look at it again, it would appear that she had managed to gather together, to curl, and tied in knots, and lost both ends, and into a solid loop. And you'll need a good half hour to sit on the grass and cursing again to straighten it out.