August 29, 2019 • 12 mins
Dear Steve and Shirley, I recently started a new position as an assistant to the office manager. On my first day at work, I noticed that everyone in the office was looking at me and whispering. I thought that they were just checking me out because I was the new girl. Silly me! When my new boss got in, I went and greeted him. Everyone was still looking at me but now they were laughing. And then it happened! The odor that came out of my boss’ mouth damn near knocked me out..........
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Buck it up, hold on tight, we got it fight Yeah.
Here it is the Strawberry letter, Thank you nephew. Subject
Boo boo Breath's assistant. Wow yeah boo boo Breath's assistant
is the subject. Dear Stephen Shirley. I recently started a
new position as an assistant to the office manager. On
my first day at work, I noticed that everyone in
(00:22):
the office was looking at me and whispering. I thought
that they were just checking me out because I was
a new girl, silling me. When my boss got in,
I went and greeted him. Everyone was still looking at me,
but now they were laughing. And then it happened. The
odor that came out of my boss's mouth dartneer knocked
(00:45):
me out. It smelled like a baby's diaper and it
hit me across my face and I almost passed out.
I realized why my coworkers were laughing. One of the
ladies she was laughing so hard she had tears in
her eyes. Afterwards, they said they were waiting for my reactions.
(01:07):
They knew I wasn't ready. It's been two weeks now
and I literally cry in my car before going in
to work. I have to be closed up in his
office and meetings every day, and I've tried offering mints
and or gum, but he declines every time. I really
love my job, but his breath makes it impossible. We
(01:31):
have an off site meeting in a couple of weeks
and he suggested that me and a couple of our
teammates ride with him. So now the teammates want me
to be the one to address this issue with him.
They have chosen me to tell him that his breath
smells like boo boo. My husband said that I should
just breathe through my mouth when I'm in his presence.
(01:52):
He said, my coworkers are setting me up because I'm
the new girl at the office. Since I'm always in
his face, I feel like I should go ahead and
say something. Or should I wait until I develop a
better relationship with him? What should I do? Please? Please
help me. Wow, this is funky. This is a funky
situation right here. You're absolutely right, and you love your job.
(02:14):
You are the new girl. I mean, what about position
to be in. You're the new kid. You're kind of
darned if you do, darned if you don't. Your husband
may be right. They could be setting you up because
they've been there all this time and they've had time
to say something to him, and they haven't. They haven't
done anything. His breath still smells like boo boo. But
(02:35):
your husband's advice to just breathe through your mouth, I
don't think that's gonna work either. I mean, you got
to live too. You probably will have to find a
way to tell him because you work the closest with him.
I mean, you can't just go to his face and
say your breath smells like boo boo and he's your employer.
I mean, it's not what you say, it's it's it's
how you say what you say. So you I mean,
(02:59):
you've offered him ment. You've harbard him and got him gum. Uh.
Everybody knows that when somebody offers you a man or
offers you gum, that you should take it. Everybody knows
that either they're trying to tell you something or peopolite.
All right, So you gotta find a way to just
I don't know. You gotta say it to your boss, Listen.
You gotta say something. You have to. You cannot let
(03:21):
this go on. You got to say something, Listen. I
just wanted to tell you, uh, maybe we should go
to the dentist together, or when's the last time you've
gone to the dentist? Something? You gotta say something, Steve,
help me out here. Yeah, see, Shirley, you don't. You
don't do good it letters like this because see you
two can you're trying not to feelings. Yeah, yeah, I'm
(03:44):
I'm here for these type letters. Now what you say?
Oh see booboo brewth's assisted right here. That term is
too loose. It's too kid. You the first day all
your office workers is looking at you, whispering. You thought
they was checking y'all cause you knew and on silly me.
(04:04):
When a new boss got in and I greeted him,
everybody was still looking at me, and now they're laughing.
And then it happened. The odor that came out of
my boss's mouth, damn near knocked me out. It smelled
like a baby's diaper. It hit me, crossing my face.
I almost passed out the right hill. Why are we
(04:29):
calling this letter booboo breath? What do you mean you
need a stronger name for somebody breath like that? Like white,
you know, wet white. Your breath smell like a used
wet white. That's what the title is. Letter should have been,
how about pamper? You could have just said pamper. We
(04:53):
know what a pampa smell like. We've all told a
tape off of a baby that we love deally, and
when we opened up that pampa, we went commercial running away.
When did this baby start eating vinegar? Green? Get out
in your mouth, man mouse, that's not boo boo, that's stink.
(05:21):
First of all, you turn around and your co workers
was laughing out. Have fought somebody because y'all told yes,
y'all new good in hell? What ill fitting walk up into?
And I'll be damn if you sit there and giggle
at me when you know what just happened. And then
your ignorant ass husband talking about breathe through your mouth.
(05:41):
You can't breathe through your mouth. You need your taste bud.
That's why. To breathe through your mouth if you want to,
won't be able to taste a damn thing. Now you
at lunch talking about I can't taste nothing. That's because
you was breathing through your mouth. You got you got
(06:03):
to take baby breaths when you round people with thinking breath.
This is how it's got to sound. Listen to this,
listen to all right, hold that breath, Hold that breath.
You can't breathe. You got sick. This pole bro, This
Poe girl got this new job. She need her job.
She even said she liked her job. First day. All
(06:24):
the people looking at ain't nobody saying nothing too. They laughing.
They figured it's silly because it's her first day. Then
her damn boss came in and she didn't know why
everybody was laughing until he said, hello, Hello, how you doing?
(06:45):
H words? I don't know why people got bad, bro
use a lot of H words. Hello, how you doing?
How's your day? Anything I could help you? How long
(07:05):
you've been here? Here's another one who recommended you nothing?
Who you standing there? You just put your eyelashes on?
Who is strong? Steve? You had just put them damn
ol yeah now here. You don't know what that is
(07:28):
on your face? You think a bugged and got on you,
but your eyelashes and fell on your damne all because
he and then you know you're gonna offer him a minute,
And he said no, he know a man ain't gonna work.
He know that what if you cover a president when
somebody breaths think that bad offering them minute? You know
(07:50):
why they don't never take mints because they can't taste
them exactly? Why listen to me, y'all, I didn't know
they were real stink breath. Don't ever wanna make because
they can't taste them? Well, then do they know that
they're breast? I didn't know that sugar cube? That's like
(08:10):
taking a sugar coo, a sugar cube and having put
it on a tablespoon of sugar honey iced tea. That's
why take a cuba, put it on a tablespoon sugar
and swallowing. Give me if you like sugar any more?
(08:32):
If so, Steve, let me ask you this then no,
let me tell you just well, I want to know, okay.
If they can't taste it, then do they know they
have bad breath? Like this? If you don't know, if
they knew that, they killed themselves, somebody got to say something.
(08:53):
They don't know that. She's got to see something. There's
other things you can do, like what like instead of
offering him a mint or some gum, offer him some
tiddy boat, offer him some tidy bowl. Just hand it
(09:15):
to him. Play the commercial with the little man and
the tarlet taking the life play it. Go outside and
hook up a fire holes to a fire hydrant, and
when he turned around and say hello, blow his whole
damn mouth off with that fire hole. Fees are the
(09:35):
type of drastic measures you have to tape take with
people's breath that smell like hot garbage. Yeah, yeah, you've
opened up trash can in the summer when you was
a little boy. Ye know what that smell like. So
that's it. You know everybody now looked every nine and
(09:55):
everybody breath be kicking. Yeah, let's just tell the tru
But normally for those of us whose breath just kick
every nine, then we kind of know it. You'll be
talking and you'll go, damn that me, and then we'll
cut our hands when you smell like exactly like what
(10:22):
I said, when your breath smell exactly, see exactly what
that exactly exactly like the crack of your aid if
you got exactly I see the reason the reason you
don't never see people blowing into their hands when they
(10:42):
got bad breath, it's because they did it one time
and it knocked their ass out, and when they came
to they didn't know what the hell now she needs
she wants to know how to tell him. She's got
to tell him. You don't. You can tell him with
your body language in your face, like like when they
turned and they started talking. Just started doing stuff like
(11:15):
just staying there. Start just jumping in place, just bounce,
just be jumping in place. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Bless him, Lord,
bless him. Lord. You know I know how he isn't
talk to somebody with real fucking bro you can't talk now.
(11:36):
You just want to get away from this, Yeah, email
him no to tell him when they're in some of
those clothes, you need to just get a big piece
of paper. When he started talking, just get a magic
market right shut the air. Far want to lose her job.
(11:58):
I don't want to lose my eye. But we're both
all right. Thank you. Steve. Post your comments on Today's
Strawberry Letter on Instagram and Facebook at Steve Harvey f M,
and then check out the Strawberry Letter podcast on demand.
You're listening to The Steven Show.
Buck it up, hold on tight, we got it fight Yeah.
Here it is the Strawberry letter, Thank you nephew. Subject
Boo boo Breath's assistant. Wow yeah boo boo Breath's assistant
is the subject. Dear Stephen Shirley. I recently started a
new position as an assistant to the office manager. On
my first day at work, I noticed that everyone in
(00:22):
the office was looking at me and whispering. I thought
that they were just checking me out because I was
a new girl, silling me. When my boss got in,
I went and greeted him. Everyone was still looking at me,
but now they were laughing. And then it happened. The
odor that came out of my boss's mouth dartneer knocked
(00:45):
me out. It smelled like a baby's diaper and it
hit me across my face and I almost passed out.
I realized why my coworkers were laughing. One of the
ladies she was laughing so hard she had tears in
her eyes. Afterwards, they said they were waiting for my reactions.
(01:07):
They knew I wasn't ready. It's been two weeks now
and I literally cry in my car before going in
to work. I have to be closed up in his
office and meetings every day, and I've tried offering mints
and or gum, but he declines every time. I really
love my job, but his breath makes it impossible. We
(01:31):
have an off site meeting in a couple of weeks
and he suggested that me and a couple of our
teammates ride with him. So now the teammates want me
to be the one to address this issue with him.
They have chosen me to tell him that his breath
smells like boo boo. My husband said that I should
just breathe through my mouth when I'm in his presence.
(01:52):
He said, my coworkers are setting me up because I'm
the new girl at the office. Since I'm always in
his face, I feel like I should go ahead and
say something. Or should I wait until I develop a
better relationship with him? What should I do? Please? Please
help me. Wow, this is funky. This is a funky
situation right here. You're absolutely right, and you love your job.
(02:14):
You are the new girl. I mean, what about position
to be in. You're the new kid. You're kind of
darned if you do, darned if you don't. Your husband
may be right. They could be setting you up because
they've been there all this time and they've had time
to say something to him, and they haven't. They haven't
done anything. His breath still smells like boo boo. But
(02:35):
your husband's advice to just breathe through your mouth, I
don't think that's gonna work either. I mean, you got
to live too. You probably will have to find a
way to tell him because you work the closest with him.
I mean, you can't just go to his face and
say your breath smells like boo boo and he's your employer.
I mean, it's not what you say, it's it's it's
how you say what you say. So you I mean,
(02:59):
you've offered him ment. You've harbard him and got him gum. Uh.
Everybody knows that when somebody offers you a man or
offers you gum, that you should take it. Everybody knows
that either they're trying to tell you something or peopolite.
All right, So you gotta find a way to just
I don't know. You gotta say it to your boss, Listen.
You gotta say something. You have to. You cannot let
(03:21):
this go on. You got to say something, Listen. I
just wanted to tell you, uh, maybe we should go
to the dentist together, or when's the last time you've
gone to the dentist? Something? You gotta say something, Steve,
help me out here. Yeah, see, Shirley, you don't. You
don't do good it letters like this because see you
two can you're trying not to feelings. Yeah, yeah, I'm
(03:44):
I'm here for these type letters. Now what you say?
Oh see booboo brewth's assisted right here. That term is
too loose. It's too kid. You the first day all
your office workers is looking at you, whispering. You thought
they was checking y'all cause you knew and on silly me.
(04:04):
When a new boss got in and I greeted him,
everybody was still looking at me, and now they're laughing.
And then it happened. The odor that came out of
my boss's mouth, damn near knocked me out. It smelled
like a baby's diaper. It hit me, crossing my face.
I almost passed out the right hill. Why are we
(04:29):
calling this letter booboo breath? What do you mean you
need a stronger name for somebody breath like that? Like white,
you know, wet white. Your breath smell like a used
wet white. That's what the title is. Letter should have been,
how about pamper? You could have just said pamper. We
(04:53):
know what a pampa smell like. We've all told a
tape off of a baby that we love deally, and
when we opened up that pampa, we went commercial running away.
When did this baby start eating vinegar? Green? Get out
in your mouth, man mouse, that's not boo boo, that's stink.
(05:21):
First of all, you turn around and your co workers
was laughing out. Have fought somebody because y'all told yes,
y'all new good in hell? What ill fitting walk up into?
And I'll be damn if you sit there and giggle
at me when you know what just happened. And then
your ignorant ass husband talking about breathe through your mouth.
(05:41):
You can't breathe through your mouth. You need your taste bud.
That's why. To breathe through your mouth if you want to,
won't be able to taste a damn thing. Now you
at lunch talking about I can't taste nothing. That's because
you was breathing through your mouth. You got you got
(06:03):
to take baby breaths when you round people with thinking breath.
This is how it's got to sound. Listen to this,
listen to all right, hold that breath, Hold that breath.
You can't breathe. You got sick. This pole bro, This
Poe girl got this new job. She need her job.
She even said she liked her job. First day. All
(06:24):
the people looking at ain't nobody saying nothing too. They laughing.
They figured it's silly because it's her first day. Then
her damn boss came in and she didn't know why
everybody was laughing until he said, hello, Hello, how you doing?
(06:45):
H words? I don't know why people got bad, bro
use a lot of H words. Hello, how you doing?
How's your day? Anything I could help you? How long
(07:05):
you've been here? Here's another one who recommended you nothing?
Who you standing there? You just put your eyelashes on?
Who is strong? Steve? You had just put them damn
ol yeah now here. You don't know what that is
(07:28):
on your face? You think a bugged and got on you,
but your eyelashes and fell on your damne all because
he and then you know you're gonna offer him a minute,
And he said no, he know a man ain't gonna work.
He know that what if you cover a president when
somebody breaths think that bad offering them minute? You know
(07:50):
why they don't never take mints because they can't taste
them exactly? Why listen to me, y'all, I didn't know
they were real stink breath. Don't ever wanna make because
they can't taste them? Well, then do they know that
they're breast? I didn't know that sugar cube? That's like
(08:10):
taking a sugar coo, a sugar cube and having put
it on a tablespoon of sugar honey iced tea. That's
why take a cuba, put it on a tablespoon sugar
and swallowing. Give me if you like sugar any more?
(08:32):
If so, Steve, let me ask you this then no,
let me tell you just well, I want to know, okay.
If they can't taste it, then do they know they
have bad breath? Like this? If you don't know, if
they knew that, they killed themselves, somebody got to say something.
(08:53):
They don't know that. She's got to see something. There's
other things you can do, like what like instead of
offering him a mint or some gum, offer him some
tiddy boat, offer him some tidy bowl. Just hand it
(09:15):
to him. Play the commercial with the little man and
the tarlet taking the life play it. Go outside and
hook up a fire holes to a fire hydrant, and
when he turned around and say hello, blow his whole
damn mouth off with that fire hole. Fees are the
(09:35):
type of drastic measures you have to tape take with
people's breath that smell like hot garbage. Yeah, yeah, you've
opened up trash can in the summer when you was
a little boy. Ye know what that smell like. So
that's it. You know everybody now looked every nine and
(09:55):
everybody breath be kicking. Yeah, let's just tell the tru
But normally for those of us whose breath just kick
every nine, then we kind of know it. You'll be
talking and you'll go, damn that me, and then we'll
cut our hands when you smell like exactly like what
(10:22):
I said, when your breath smell exactly, see exactly what
that exactly exactly like the crack of your aid if
you got exactly I see the reason the reason you
don't never see people blowing into their hands when they
(10:42):
got bad breath, it's because they did it one time
and it knocked their ass out, and when they came
to they didn't know what the hell now she needs
she wants to know how to tell him. She's got
to tell him. You don't. You can tell him with
your body language in your face, like like when they
turned and they started talking. Just started doing stuff like
(11:15):
just staying there. Start just jumping in place, just bounce,
just be jumping in place. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Bless him, Lord,
bless him. Lord. You know I know how he isn't
talk to somebody with real fucking bro you can't talk now.
(11:36):
You just want to get away from this, Yeah, email
him no to tell him when they're in some of
those clothes, you need to just get a big piece
of paper. When he started talking, just get a magic
market right shut the air. Far want to lose her job.
(11:58):
I don't want to lose my eye. But we're both
all right. Thank you. Steve. Post your comments on Today's
Strawberry Letter on Instagram and Facebook at Steve Harvey f M,
and then check out the Strawberry Letter podcast on demand.
You're listening to The Steven Show.
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