What is a brief account of the packing incident in Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome?

The "packing incident" can be found in chapter 4. It's another great sequence that continues to show that J., Harris, and George are complete, bumbling idiots that don't know it. The incident begins with the men having gathered all of their stuff together that needs to be packed. J. volunteers to do the packing, and the other two men sit back to watch. This bugs J. because what he intended was to volunteer to tell the other guys what needed to be packed when and where.

This was hardly what I intended. What I had meant, of course, was, that I should boss the job, and that Harris and George should potter about under my directions, I pushing them aside every now and then with, “Oh, you—!” “Here, let me do it.” “There you are, simple enough!”—really teaching them, as you might say.

J. eventually gets the bag all packed, and then Harris mentions that the boots didn't get packed. J. then has to unpack some stuff, pack the boots, and repack the stuff. He then can't remember if he packed his toothbrush or not, so he proceeds to unpack everything in order to find it. He finds the toothbrush and repacks everything only to have George ask about the soap being packed. J. has had enough by this point and says that he doesn't care about the soap.
Next, George and Harris make an attempt to pack the food and dishes. It's a hilarious sequence in which dishes are broken, jars of food are smashed, and butter is smeared everywhere.

They upset salt over everything, and as for the butter! I never saw two men do more with one-and-twopence worth of butter in my whole life than they did. After George had got it off his slipper, they tried to put it in the kettle. It wouldn’t go in, and what was in wouldn’t come out. They did scrape it out at last, and put it down on a chair, and Harris sat on it, and it stuck to him, and they went looking for it all over the room.