Can you whistle?

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I think the three biggest accomplishments of my entire childhood was learning how to whistle, how to blow bubble gum into a bubble, and how to tie my shoelaces. I learned the first two long before the last one. Pathetic, huh?

That's not too bad all things considered. I never managed the bubblegum trick, and I walked around with untied shoelaces for a lot longer than "normal". I learnt to fish long before tying my shoelaces. Fishing seems more useful to be fair.

Sorta used the whistling for dogs, like someone mentioned, but also for people too over distance. Now, I just gently whistle when I'm several yards away from my mother when she hasn't seen me, as startle can make her fall over due to her illness.

Sometimes I'm whistling without realizing I am. My mum once asked me if my lips don't get tired whistling so much. And, yes, they do get tired because you use your lip muscles in a certain way. I didn't even realize that my lip muscles can get tired until my mum asked me that question.

I never liked chewing gum much & I could never blow a gum bubble but I might could do it these days if I tried. I learned to tie my shoes later than my peers but I have bad fine motor-skills & a tremor disorder that acts up when doing things with fine motor-skills so I have an excuse. While I can tie my shoes, it takes me a while to do it & I find it aLOT easier to wear shoes with velcro. Unfortunately the 3 schools I went to after 4th grade were private schools that had uniform policies that required dress shoes that got tied so my parents really pushed me to learn to tie em during the summer before 5th grade. If I was a kid today with that problem & if my tremor disorder was diagnosed(it was not diagnosed till I was 20) my parents woulda said it was a needed reasonable disability accommodation & got a note from my GP or other doc. things were worse back then for disableds with school & even my docs did not want to diagnose things & my parents were a lot poorer & our health insurance majorly s#cked. Thankfully the 3 jobs I worked at had dress codes that were a lot more lax(for the regular employeees anyway) than those 3 schools were.