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Maybe The Young and the Restless has been listening after all. Maybe the powers that be heard our pleas to have at least one individual on the canvas who isn’t a filthy-rich CEO. Maybe we just got super lucky. Whatever the reason, this week we were introduced to our favorite new character in years: Dave the Trucker.

We may be alone in our love for Dave. But dang it, it felt refreshing and real to have the hardworking everyman look at Victor and Jack and that roomful of Richie Riches like he’d just been abducted by aliens. Of course, the dude was scared bleepless. Who wouldn’t be? He’s working his tail off to keep the lights on, and this meeting of the Moneybags Society can just take days off whenever they want to browbeat the commoner they suspect helped Crazy Aunt Jordan™ kidnap Harrison.

And OK, fine. So Dave did help Crazy Aunt Jordan™. But hard-up and cash-strapped, who wouldn’t? Who in their right mind could imagine how in her wrong mind she was? She looks like your Not Crazy Aunt Essie, not a homicidal maniac with a wig fetish and a return address that’s Oscar the Grouch’s dank alley.

But the Story’s Over… or *Is* It?

Victor, Jack & Co. got the information that they wanted out of dear ol’ Dave, then warned that he might want to get out of Genoa City pronto. We have a better idea, though. Dave ought to stick around. Dave oughta play out a redemption arc. Dave oughta become The Mustache’s new bestie.

“Seems to me a guy like you could use a guy like me,” Dave might suggest. “You’ve been up here living high off the hog for so long, you’ve forgotten what it’s like to have to share a trough with the pigs down there. Let me be your eyes and ears on the street.”

“I am a man of the world,” Victor would surely reply, and haughtily. “I don’t associate with lowlifes.”

“Ya forgot a word,” Dave would tell him.

Victor expression says “Huh?” for him. “Anymore,” Dave would continue. “You don’t associate with lowlifes anymore. Unless you were born with a silver spoon in your mouth, you for sure had to climb over some to get where you are. Stick with me, and you’ll never have to get your shoes dirty again.”

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An Unlikely Love Story

Rather than employ Dave as a henchman, Victor, deciding that he likes the plebian’s chutzpah, would give him a job working security at the ranch. “My current team seems to think that undesirables are going to drive up and ring the doorbell, so the bar is set low — step over it.”

Gradually, Victor and Dave would become pals. Victor would begin to see that, underneath the stink of desperation, Dave is a decent guy, a funny guy, and one with a point of view that is sorely lacking in his life. Eventually, Dave could start getting invited to all the fancypants parties in town. There, he could become smitten with Traci, marveling that a smile from her feels as warm as an embrace. But could she ever see him as anything more than the dirtbag who aided and abetted Crazy Aunt Jordan™? We’d sure tune in to find out.