Years ago a friend saw me tie my shoe and said “you’re doing it wrong.” He got me to do it again so he could make fun.

I said what the heck do you mean? The rabbit goes around the tree and gets stuck in a cave. Shoes stay on. What more do I need?

Granted I didn’t bother to learn all the knots in Boy Scouts. I was too busy participating in mischief.

I think I figured it out. I read somewhere that the way you tie your shoes reverses every generation.

Unless the adult who taught you reached around and tied them from behind, you learned a mirror image of how they did it.

So I told my friend to take it up with my kindergarten teacher Miss Ferch.