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I've always known the difference between the square knot and the granny knot, but I still usually tie it "wrong" because it's muscle memory and I can't be bothered. But honestly, now that I'm middle aged, I just get away with wearing slip on shoes most of the time and only catch flak for it from my young adult son.

>>techno+(OP)
I like to wear nice dress shoes, so that's certainly a factor. It took no more than a moment to learn to do the first half of the knot "wrong" (i.e. to be compatible with the second half of the knot) - and I'd say it was in my muscle memory within a day or two.

A few years later I took up partner dancing and I'm glad that losing a lace in the middle of a dance is a rare occurrence for me - it's super annoying on the rare occasions that it happens (either interrupting the dance to re-tie or putting up with the lace getting underfoot for the rest of it)

PS am also middle-aged...

>>techno+(OP)
I use the "right over left and left over right makes a knot both tidy and tight" every time unless I'm in a hurry, which I usually am if I'm tying a bow, in which case it's completely a coin flip as to what gets tied.