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COLUMN: "Josca on heels"

───   17:57 Tue, 03 Oct 2017

COLUMN: "Josca on heels" | News Article
Photo: Josca Human

I believe that everybody walks a journey in life and my tale starts with a pair of shoes… not just any pair of shoes, but a pair of black wedges I wore to a rugby press conference.


Look, shoes are my thing. It does not matter what rags you put on, a killer pair of shoes can give you that self-confidence boost you need instantly. Everytime I can hear my mommy say “every woman should look their best all the time because you never know who you are going to meet”.

But it looks like my seven years or days of bad luck have now slipped into my beloved shoe department lately. All this while I am trying to find my foot in my new role as social media reporter for OFM News. So you get this – I have to be camera-ready all the time!

So with the Bokke in town, I had the change to attend a press conference or two. Now a girl got to do what a girl got to do – dress to kill. My makeup was top notch which does not happen often. I would have trouble lining or matching my eye-shadow or my base will look extremely darker than my actual skin complexion and I will look like those Ompa-lompa’s in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, but THAT morning it just looked perfect. Or almost.

My shoe-pick of the day would complete my look. I should have known it was too good to be true. One cannot have such a perfect start… 

So off we went to meet the Bokke. Of course, these oaks are attracting a local and international hype. I was positioning myself nicely – balancing on my black babies, when suddenly, I hear a zap… It was my shoe! The whole wedge basically tore off from its sole, and here I am - surrounded by media and unable to walk! “Typical me, this always happens to me,” I was thinking – I knew it. It was too good a start.  “This has got to be the most embarrassing thing that has happened.”

The captain is speaking about their expectations of the game against the Wallabies, and all I am thinking is how to salvage the situation.  I start panicking and my face turns scarlet. See I did not need a mirror to know that. It's that too warm and too fuzzy feeling creeping up from your neck to your face. You can do nothing about it!

I stand to inspect the damage – hoping no one else will notice. The sole of my shoe, and the actual shoe part have divorced each other. Now when I’m nervous I giggle – but juggling trying hard not to and figuring out a way how to make a clean escape is way too hard. I start sliding myself out of the room, too scared to lift my foot off the ground and walk normally. People start looking at me, and I can see the grins on their faces.

Then it hits: Josca you have as always a spare of flatties – for when the heels become too much. However, I cannot exactly take my shoes off at a 5-star hotel now, can I?

We are finally out of the hotel, into the parking lot and Morgan starts walking faster. “No Morgan, just chill, can’t you see what’s happening,” I am thinking. He was obviously on a mission to find his car and here I am running after him like a newborn duck.

Lesson learned. A tube of superglue in your Nine West, a pair of flatties, a ‘slide’ with an attitude and a poker face can go a long way!

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