tied my shoes

I remember learning to tie my shoe.  I was about four, and I was with my mom.  She had been trying to show me for some time before. But it seemed too hard.  I was wearing a pair of athletic shoes.  They were blue with a white strip on the side. They tied with big white laces.  That is the image in my memory. We were sitting in the parking lot of a small auto garage; they did repairs and sold gas at their two pumps. My mom had an old car and the battery needed to be charges occasionally. This was in the late 70’s and I remember the attendant cleaning our windshield while pumping the gas whenever we stopped in.  It was an old wood frame building with bars on the windows.  I remember sitting in the car, and my mom showing me again how to tie my shoes.  I sat forward on the edge of the seat and my foot up on the center dash.  She talked me through the steps and I finally got it! I did it again.  And yes, I was successful.  I learned to do something on my own.