Attached is a picture of my telephone handset cord. You can see in the center where the coiling pattern deviates. At that point, the coil changes from clockwise to counterclockwise. Clearly at some point the cord got twisted on itself in some unfathomable way, and I am not smart enough to figure out how to untwist it.

You can't imagine the sleepless nights I have spent worrying about this, the countless hours spent twisting and bending the unwieldy cord in a fruitless effort to resolve the situation.

No doubt there is a simple trick to fix this, but I am not clever enough to discern it. Short of taking the telephone to China where the cord was manufactured, how can I restore this cord to its former, pristine clockwise-only curl?

tanstaafl.