Rule 948: Every fetish has a sub-fetish.

[hecateuse]

Even knitting. Case in point: knitters use yarn, and said yarn needs to be wound into balls. Sometimes, due to children, cats, poltergeists, vodka, etc., this goes wrong and the yarn becomes a huge tangled mess. Most knitters will swear up and down for a while, then untangle the yarn and keep going. If it's really bad, they might get frustrated

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[dsjones]

Although I love to untangle (x-mas lights, necklaces, string), I don't believe I go THAT far :)

[hecateuse]

After I posted that, I ran across someone whose friend *purposely* tangled like 10 balls of yarn together into a huge laundry basket sized mess, and gave it to her. As a birthday present. She was thrilled...

I really don't mind untangling myself, usually, but to go out of your way for it? I dunno.

[zarfmouse]

Maybe it is the same kind of compulsion that drives puzzle people to build the puzzles with 10,000 pieces that are all the same color.

Some people just like to solve/fix stuff...

[anaesthete]

Wow. And people used to bribe me, She-of-the-very-long-fingernails, to untie their knots.