Time Lapse

We've all seen those videos people have put together to watch things in super speed. You know the ones where a girl ages overs 3 years or you watch a pumpkin rot before your eyes. But what I want to know is why don't people use time lapse to solve one of the greatest unsolved mysteries that exists today.

We need someone to set up a time lapse camera to videotape cords. Thats right, cords. Power cords, extension cords, headphones, Christmas lights, we need them videotaped. How can I always put them way, coiled or just mashed, and find them a knotted mess when I go to use them again. Even when I just jam the headphones in my pocket somehow my apparent knotting expertise kicks in and somehow loops the headphones in and around each other multiple times without my knowledge. You would think I'm just layering the wire on top of itself leading to easy unravelling, but no, every time I pull my headphones out of my pocket I get a nice mangled ball.
When I coil up an extension and cord and throw it in the garage, relatively still coiled, and come back to mow the lawn again it still looks coiled, but its NOT. The knotting sneakily occured and was unseen by the naked eye. Only after a couple passes on the lawn do you feel resistance, look back, and find your friend, the mangled mess, dragging behind you.

So to all aspiring artists, scientists or knottists(scouts, sailors, woodsmen, dominatrices) I urge you to figure out the mystery of the knotting cord/wire.

The most annoying thing is when I want to knot something it comes undone within the hour. I guess I should stop trying to tie my shoes and instead pile the laces on top, come back the next day and I should find them knotted securely atop me shoes.