Spooked In The Thrift Store

Bwahahaha!

On Saturday, I went shopping for cowboy boots at Thrift Town in the Del Paso neighborhood. It was a bit chaotic out front in the parking lot, as a woman and her man, both on bicycles, with the woman trying to prevent the man's departure, had a domestic dispute in the parking lot. At one point, the man shouted for help, and asked that someone called the police. I almost did, but despite a few of his lame karate chops against her arms on the handle bars, it seemed to be more a dark domestic comedy than a genuine menace. He finally escaped, with her shouting epithets following closely behind. Just another day in Del Paso.

On Saturday, I was also thinking a lot about ballet dancers, specifically the late Maria Tallchief and the still-living Yvonne Chouteau. From Wikipedia:

Myra Yvonne Chouteau (born March 7, 1929 in Fort Worth, Texas) is one of the "Five Moons" or Native prima ballerinas of Oklahoma. In 1962, she and her husband, Miguel Terekhov, founded the first fully accredited university dance program in the United States, the School of Dance at the University of Oklahoma. A member of the Shawnee Tribe, she is also of ethnic French ancestry, the great-great-great-granddaughter of Maj. Jean Pierre Chouteau.

Oh, that's interesting!

In the thrift shop, I picked up a children's book about the history of the Santa Fe Trail, turned to a random page, and discovered that page was all about Maj. Jean Pierre Chouteau and his activities on the southern Plains. The weird happenstance of it all!  I was so spooked I dubbed the day "Chouteau Saturday", and got out of there!