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Originally Posted by ArmorPlate108
My thought would be that he has a lot of patients who lack the flexibility and dexterity to tie their own shoes well, so it's become second nature for him to offer when he sees a lace in need.
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Especially given that he is an endocrinologist who must be seeing a lot of very obese patients who indeed cannot tie their shoe laces.
This reminded me how I retained the habit of vigilance over closing the front door after I had my foster cats rehomed. I no longer needed to be vigilant to prevent foster cats from running away should I leave the front door open, but the ingrained habit took a long time to die. Eventually it did.
This doctor might be doing it on autopilot, without checking and seeing that this particular patient, unlike many others, is not obese and can perfectly well tie the loose shoelace.