By MONTE DUTTON

What is the scribe to do when it’s Saturday and the Red Devils are rained out?

Oh, it’s not so bad. I enjoyed a total of four quality conversations at the Waffle House and the laundromat. Let’s see. One was about religion. One was about racing. One was about photography. One was about getting old.

Familiar themes all.

I had a Rodney Dangerfield moment, only cleaner, a few days ago. Every time I go to Ollie’s Discount Outlet, I can’t find what I want but buy things I happen upon. I don’t mind. I bought a really good cut-rate novel, and a stuffed John Belushi that says, “Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?” when his string is pulled.

My heart weeps for readers too young to understand the paragraph above.

Oh, yeah, back to Rodney. I passed a display of sanitizer bottles. I bought one. When I got home, I discovered it was a bottle that holds sanitizer, not a bottle with sanitizer in it. It was made of glass, so it felt heavy. I started pumping and nothing came out. I screwed the top off, and nothing was in there.

I don’t get no respect! No respect at aaalll …!

I didn’t take it back. It was my fault. I’ll just have to buy some sanitizer, and perhaps a small funnel, and pour it in the bottle. It’ll add a touch of class to my hand washing.

I don’t feel as if I’ve had an unproductive day. I read about Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt while at the Waffle House and laundromat, which, given the current state of the land, seems like sci-fi. I washed and dried my quilt for the first time.

I spent 80 bucks to fill up the truck. That was a thrill.

Now I’m writing a blog because it’s raining in Charlotte, and few things on TV are worse than NASCAR rain delays, and the war movie on TCM is over.

As my late friend Jim McLaurin used to say, “Other’n’at, ain’t much hap’nin’.”

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