A very easy question, or is it?

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Post 1 by Nem (I just keep on posting!) on Sunday, 25-Mar-2007 20:59:40

Please write down all the steps to tieing your shoe.

Post 2 by shea (number one pulse checking chicky) on Sunday, 25-Mar-2007 21:00:40

wear sandals and don't worry about it. hehehehe smiles

Post 3 by retrieverdog (when I'm in seventh hour, my work does show.) on Sunday, 25-Mar-2007 21:06:44

1. never mind I don't know

Post 4 by blbobby (Ooo you're gona like this!) on Sunday, 25-Mar-2007 21:23:10

Slip ons are great.

Post 5 by Nem (I just keep on posting!) on Sunday, 25-Mar-2007 21:24:17

Will no one take me seriously? hgrins.

Post 6 by Blue Velvet (I've got the platinum golden silver bronze poster award.) on Sunday, 25-Mar-2007 21:25:51

You take one shelace in each hand, cross them over and then make a knot, then make a bow. Is that what you want Nem?

Post 7 by Nem (I just keep on posting!) on Sunday, 25-Mar-2007 21:36:58

Yes becky that's what I want. However, that's not the way to tie a shoe.

Post 8 by Blue Velvet (I've got the platinum golden silver bronze poster award.) on Sunday, 25-Mar-2007 21:38:20

I know there's a joke in here somewhere...

Post 9 by PorkInCider (Wind assisted.) on Sunday, 25-Mar-2007 22:11:15

You don't tie a shoe, you tie your laces.

Post 10 by blbobby (Ooo you're gona like this!) on Monday, 26-Mar-2007 6:23:57

Good response BlackBird.

I was going to say,

1. type google "how to tie shoe laces"
2. Copy the results to your clipboard.
3. Paste the results here.

Bob

Post 11 by nikos (English words from a Greek thinking brain) on Monday, 26-Mar-2007 7:22:33

I have to say that i had difficulty to learn how to do this. I only learned when i was 16.
I don't think it would be helpfull somebody posting instruction here. I can't even describe it myself. What you will probaply need is a very patient person who can sit with you and tell you what to do and you will have to try a lot of times untill you mannage it. I had somebody at school to teach me.
Good luck.

Post 12 by redgirl34 (Scottish) on Monday, 26-Mar-2007 9:17:26

I did try to learn how to tie laces but I cant remember how to. I cant even remember learning but my dad says I did.

Post 13 by shea (number one pulse checking chicky) on Monday, 26-Mar-2007 10:17:51

lol, i was going to say the exact same thing that kev said. hehehe but arrowing down he beat me to it. hehehehe smiles. shea

Post 14 by blbobby (Ooo you're gona like this!) on Monday, 26-Mar-2007 12:24:26

I learned when I was ten. My dad found out I didn't know how to tie my shoes, and that my mom always tied my shoes for me.
He got really mad, sat down and taught me in fifteen minutes, and I don't think I'll ever forget. Boy was I scared. <lol>

Bob

Post 15 by Reyami (I've broken five thousand! any more awards going?) on Monday, 26-Mar-2007 19:27:45

I remember struggling with tying my shoes at age four, or so, but I can't actually remember when I finally got the hang of it.
Take one lace per hand, cross them over and loop the one in your left hand under the other one--- ah, screw it. Google tying shoes. I know I got the first part right. lol

Post 16 by guitargod1 (I'm going for the prolific poster awards!) on Monday, 26-Mar-2007 23:45:55

Okay, assuming that google search has been done, then google can be used for absolutely everything! haha. And good one. You tie your laces, not your shoes.

Post 17 by OrangeDolphinSpirit (Despite the cost of living, have you noticed how popular it remains?) on Tuesday, 27-Mar-2007 10:48:09

Tie the laces from the left shoe and the laces from your right shoe together. There. You have your shoes tied.

Post 18 by Shadow_Cat (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Tuesday, 27-Mar-2007 14:28:41

Hahaha, Dolphin Spirit. I like that.

I learned to tie my shoes when I was about four or five. It was my Grandpa, (my Mom's dad), who taught me how. It's weird, I don't remember learning a lot of that basic kind of thing, but somehow I do remember learning to tie my shoelaces, even though now I just do it without giving it any thought.

Post 19 by softy5310 (Fuzzy's best angel) on Tuesday, 27-Mar-2007 20:43:36

Hi,
I didn't learn how to tie my shoes until I was ten or eleven. I had a lot of coordination problems as a kid and didn't even know how to zip up my jacket until I was nine or so. Buttons were hard for me too. Finally, my mom taught me how. It took me weeks and weeks of trying and I thought I'd never get it. I’d cry sometimes, because I was so frustrated. The hard part too, was that my parent’s had a hard time being patient with me. Finally, one day, it just clicked. I never have forgotten how to tie them and even though it’s a small thing, it’s something I take pride in, because I worked so hard at it.
Take Care,
Dawnielle

Post 20 by DancingAfterDark (I just keep on posting!) on Tuesday, 27-Mar-2007 20:49:48

I love how this board no longer really has much to do with the actual question.

I learned to tie my shoes when I was ... five or six. In kindergarten, anyway. I don't actually remember learning, but I know my aid taught me.

Post 21 by laced-unlaced (Account disabled) on Wednesday, 28-Mar-2007 8:57:36

my mummy does it for me. cute!

Post 22 by laced-unlaced (Account disabled) on Wednesday, 28-Mar-2007 9:18:39

i prefer slip ons anyway

Post 23 by PorkInCider (Wind assisted.) on Wednesday, 28-Mar-2007 9:31:10

Jesus christ, an adult who still has their mother tie their shoelaces.


I learnt when I first went away to school, at the age of 7. The first things I remember them teaching me in the house in the evening was to tie my shoes, and to do a tie. I had to wear a uniform and so they needed me to be able to dress myself propperly.

Post 24 by Reyami (I've broken five thousand! any more awards going?) on Saturday, 07-Apr-2007 21:29:41

I'm shocked. an adult whose mom--- Never mind. It's never too late to learn to do it. I should test myself to see if I still remember how to do it. lol I've been wearing sneakers without laces for quite a while now.

Post 25 by forereel (Just posting.) on Sunday, 08-Apr-2007 0:22:04

Lol. Wonder if google helped we didn't and I'll not mess up now. hahaha

Post 26 by lauralou (Account disabled) on Tuesday, 10-Jul-2007 12:52:29

um, wow i learned when i was five years, and my aid taught me, we had this little little old lady who lived in a shoe toy, and it had her whole family, the toy taught u how to tie one, but it was pretty fricken pointless lol

Post 27 by ~*Dark_Light*~ (I just keep on posting!) on Tuesday, 10-Jul-2007 14:09:06

A bit off topic and yet still having to do with shoes...

A guy I know did maintenance at a place, not all certain
what it was called...a residence where priests reside

This one priest was always requesting one thing or another
Once he wanted the soles of his shoes glued back together
and this maintenance guy was requested to do this for the
priest.. well seems this guy, btw, a neighbor of mine
Anyhow he got tired of always being requested by this one
priest to do jobs he thought this one could do for himself so....

he glued the soles of the shoes to each other
so no longer two shoes with the soles glued back on
Just one clump of a mess of the two shoes stuck to each other.

Guess this priest never requested a job to be done by this
maintenance guy ever again.

~*Thunderous MidNight*~

Post 28 by Blondie McConfusion (Blah Blah Blah) on Tuesday, 10-Jul-2007 14:09:28

i'll actually answer the first question here since i'm a little odd and never learned the normal way to tie my shoes. this is the one and only good thing i took away from the 4 short years george was in my life.
take one lace in each hand. cross them over eachother. this forms the start of making a knot. pull one lace through the hole/circle that was created when you crossed them over eachother. pull both laces until the knot is tight. then make a bow out of each lace. then cross the 2 bows over eachother and tie them into a knot like you did with just the original laces.
hope this actually answers the question. i'm not the greatest at giving instructions, but i at least tried.

Post 29 by shea (number one pulse checking chicky) on Tuesday, 10-Jul-2007 14:39:04

i never did learn to tie my shoes. i'm a bit weird, i guess. i did however learn to tie my shoe laces. heheheh smiles!

Post 30 by Reyami (I've broken five thousand! any more awards going?) on Tuesday, 10-Jul-2007 17:41:40

lol, I got that.

Post 31 by soaring eagle (flying high again!) on Thursday, 12-Jul-2007 13:20:00

I actually had trouble learning how to tie as well. I could actually make the knots in scouts before I could tie my shoes.

Post 32 by ~*Dark_Light*~ (I just keep on posting!) on Thursday, 12-Jul-2007 14:39:03

Velcro can be the easy route to go

Post 33 by JH_Radio (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Thursday, 12-Jul-2007 20:25:37

I thought only girls could by zelcrow shoos? I learned when I was nine. Three hours every other day per week for a few weeks, not to mention practicing on my own time...

Post 34 by ~*Dark_Light*~ (I just keep on posting!) on Thursday, 12-Jul-2007 21:20:28

JHRadio,
You would be one certainly desired to be had
on one of those all nighter gift wrapping sessions
{like near the holidays or a Birthday Celebration, etc}
What with all that bow tying knowledge.smile
~*Thunderous MidNight*~

Post 35 by blbobby (Ooo you're gona like this!) on Friday, 13-Jul-2007 0:04:38

You mean they make shoes with strings in them? How neat, but, then how would you tie the strings?

<lol>

Bob

Post 36 by SensuallyNaturallyLiving4Today (LivingLifeAndLovingItToo) on Wednesday, 25-Jul-2007 0:26:04

GAH! I'm trying so. so. so very hard not to be my usual caustic self. Life Stream had such a big impact on me and I don't want to give into the temptation to make fun of some people, but... it's. so. hard. (Makes a truly horrible face, holds her hands to her face as if to contain something great and fierce rising within her self, explodes) I swear, no names here, but there is no, absolutely no reason that an intelligent blind person shouldn't be able to tie their own shoes in adulthood. Good lord. I had a bit of difficulty when people tried to show me starting at the age of four and so I insisted on velcrow sneakers. Until I was seven or eight and realized how blind it made me look. My parents were surprised when after three or four years of refusing to learn I approached my father on a camping trip and insisted that he teach me how to tie shoelaces. Thank God I finally got it that time.

Post 37 by Puggle (I love my life!) on Wednesday, 25-Jul-2007 6:23:06

I know i know, first before you tie your shoe laces, you hneed your shoes! and the laces...
yay me who learnt with her shoes on at 4.