Duck Walk Chicken Talk

It must be a curse. I must have done something awfully wrong to annoy someone up there that He has to see me being embarrassed to the bareness of my foot (literally).

I broke 3 pairs of my sandals in 2 days. And it is always my right shoe.The odds of wear and tear just don't add up like that. It must be the way I have been exerting stress on my right foot while walking. When I was young, my grandma used to hold my foot in her hand and laughed jokingly that I have 'duck's feet': feet that are flat instead of arching slightly midway between the toes and the soles.

Hmm...Duck's feet. When I couldn't run fast enough in school, I blamed my duck feet. I just thanked god the duck's waddle never comes as a package with them.

Only when my friends commented that i have a unique walk with my toes pointing inwards, only could I imagine that i must have looked like a heavy-bottomed waddling duck from my rear view. That was simply fantantic, maybe i was reincarnated from a duck afterall.

Then I came to Melbourne and this pervy middle-aged crane driver thought that I have a, quoting him , 'sad walk'. And he found it captivating (yea rightttt). Yes, the forlorn, stooped-shoulder sad duck walk ...Aww...the attractiveness of a helpless damsel.

Now THREE pairs of my shoes have their straps snapped in TWO days. I had to blame my duck feet for them. For a long time superglue has been an essential item in my bag for this: the devious, scheming shoe-breaking devil just likes to creep up on me when i am the least off-guard. While shopping for groceries, while heading to meet someone, while crossing the road. And then it went 'piak' and my foot felt exposed. Then cursing under my breath I had to drag my foot clad in the broken shoe to the nearest bench i could find, taking my life-saving superglue and stuck the straps back on. All those darn shoes designers ought to be born with duck feet so that they can emphatise with people like me and STOP DESIGNING SHOES WHICH BARELY HOLD TOGETHER! In the name of beauty MY FOOT! I am sure durability and aesthetic appeal do not have to be mutually exclusive.

I can change the shoes. But how can i change THE WALK?