My father the sailor, the Navy man, son of a Rear Admiral in the Navy, the man who taught me to sail and taught me so much more ... recently discovered, to his abject horror, that he had been tying granny knots in his shoelaces. Forever, apparently.
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For those who aren't sailors, a sailor never ties a granny knot. She ties a square knot (OK, the precise term is reef knot, there is a real square knot but it's not terribly useful), and she ties it from muscle memory and would NEVER EVER EVER tie a granny knot.
But he did confess to me, and he says he worked on it and got it right today.
I checked my own shoelaces. I tie a square reef knot, and I do it every time without ever even thinking about it, and I have checked and double-checked that, because I will not tolerate any hint of me tying a granny knot any time, anywhere in my life.
And I tried just for S&G to tie my shoelaces in a granny knot and my fingers just didn't know how to do it. Which is excellent because I don't have to change my life around.
I like bowlines, too also.
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