"Chicken Leg and Wide Calf" It sounds like it should be the name of a Western movie..."Chicken Leg and Wide Calf". It was in fact about a woman buying boots. Simple enough. But we have to ask questions that may embarrass people. We don't know, because we don't know the people we're talking to...yet. In that oh-so-exciting process of looking for a shoe, I had to ask her a question I didn't think would be particularly touchy: Are you a wide calf? Putting to one side that that sentence isn't even grammatically correct English - unless I'm asking her if she's a really large bovine - the question isn't one that offends. People who shop by phone/online know that they're going to have to answer things like, "So, what's your bra size?" and "Are you a wide calf?", and they're generally not offended. But when she said, "No. I have chicken legs", I heard a note of embarrassment in her voice. I responded by laughing. The image in my head was amusing - a human woman with chicken legs - and since she was laughing too, we started talking about legs. I made my deep confession, mostly to let her know she shouldn't feel embarrassed: "I am a wide calf," I said. (And no! I did not moo.) From then forward, we called each other Chicken Leg and Wide Calf. And a Western movie was born. Or it really should have been. ©2019 LoriKirstein
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