7-29-26 -- DEAR UNCLE RUSTY

Dear Uncle Rusty.

Some advice that you'll be providing today.

With a warning, I'm very opinionated and often wrong.

My husband, Van, and I run a business with responsibilities that take him out of his office and leave me working in our home office.

My problem.

So a few times each year, Van calls me from his car to tell me about some poor hitchhiker that he has just picked up.

Today, it was a 19 year old temporary laborer wearing a hard hat on his way home to a nearby city.

Although I realize Van is proud of his ability to help someone, it never fails to terrify me.

And unfortunately, my husband thinks my reaction indicates a distrust in his ability to judge a person's character.

He insists that he can spot a phony a mile away, but he won't budge on this issue.

I maintain that Van has a greater responsibility preserved safety for his family's sake and shouldn't pick up strangers Please help me convince my good Samaritan.

He is playing Russian roulette this today from worried

Of all the things in a marriage to worry about Picking up hitchhikers.

I don't know if that even rises to the top 10

Mark, my bigger question is why does he feel the need to call his wife and tell her about it?

Hey, honey, guess who I have beside me right now?

Yeah.

I have a guy in a hard hat that I picked up while he was hitchhiking on the side of the road.

Do people even hitchhike anymore?

I

haven't seen a hitchhiker in years.

I saw one on the way to the first Avenue Club show.

There was somebody standing there and putting their thumb out.

Did you pick him up?

No.

Have you ever?

No, I haven't either.

No, I've seen that movie start that way.

It's called a horror movie.

They chop your head

off.

Look, I think that there's no good resolution to this problem.

He's going to pick up hitchhikers.

You're going to be worried about it.

I don't know if there's if there's any, you know.

No, just don't tell him not to call you.

Say, honey, do what you're going to do.

Leave me out of it.

I don't want to know.

Up your life insurance policy.

Right.

The Rock 108 Morning Show.