Dear Steve and Shirley, My husband and I are in a bad place all because I found him next door with my neighbor's sister. The lady calls to tell me that my husband was complaining of chest pains. I told her to dial 911, and she said my husband didn't want to go to the hospital. She also said my husband didn't want her to call me, but she did anyway. I didn't ask questions until I saw how my husband was doing. This strange woman was standing outside of my neighbor's house........................................
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Speaker 1 (00:27):
Subject he was next door with the neighbor's sister. Dear
Stephen Shirley, My husband and I are in a bad
place all because I found him next door with my
neighbor's sister. The lady calls to tell me that my
husband was complaining of chest pains. I told her to
dial nine one one, and she said my husband didn't
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want to go to the hospital. She also said my
husband didn't want her to call me, but she did anyway.
I didn't ask questions until I saw how my husband
was doing. This strange woman was standing outside of my
neighbor's house. When I got home. My husband was asleep
on the neighbor's sofa. I woke him up. I'm sorry
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I woke him up, and then he started crying. I
asked if.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
He was in any pain.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
He said he was not in pain, and he told
a woman not to call or bother me. I told
him to walk home and he did. Nothing was wrong
with him except he was drunk. I went off on
him and he said he could have died. And all
I want to do is questioning question him about being
next door with a stranger. I went back to the
neighbor's house to talk to her. She said she's our
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neighbor's younger sister and she's been house sitting while our
neighbor is in Honduras. She said she's been there two
weeks and she's met my husband, but not me. I
asked her how she got my number, and she said
she's been calling my husband before. She's seen me calling
my husband before, so he's been there before and she
had reason to remember my phone number. She was sober,
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so I wonder why my husband was so drunk. Why
did she feel the need to remember my phone number.
I have not accused my husband of anything yet, just yet,
because I need to do a little more detective work
on what's going on? My husband said he never told
the woman he was having chest pains. So did she
lie to get me.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
To come home? Was she setting him up to get caught?
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Yes, all of the above In this crazy, confusing letter,
I don't want to understand even what you want from us.
The real issue is that your husband shouldn't have been
over there in the first place. Okay, all he was
was drunk, So now that we know nothing is wrong
with him, he needs to come clean why he was
over there.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
You're asking all the wrong questions.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Your neighbor's younger sister's been there for two weeks house sitting,
But what's your husband's excuse? Why was he over there?
That's what you need to know, and those questions can
only come from him. He's been seeing the little sister
on the side, Isn't that obvious. He's just not going
to admit that. You can do all the detective work
you want to do, but I don't. I don't think
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it's gonna make much difference unless he tells his side too,
which he's not. Your husband got a lot of nerve
and he needs to stop lying. That's all this is.
Your husband's just drunk and lying, Tommy.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
It's a lot of things. I don't know a lot
of things I think I do know. I think the
biggest thing I really want to ask, what the hell
is your sister doing in hunt Doers? What is she
doing over there? What does she go over there for?
What is going on in hunting Dourers that you're gone
for two weeks? Don't nobody go to hunt Doers for
two weeks? But I mean, really, I've been on a
lot of vacations. It ain't never been Huntders for two weeks.
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I don't understand that part. But here's what I think.
And y'all tell me what y'all think about this. This
is just Tommy stalk. Now, Okay, here's what I do
know is that your husband don't really like you. If
your husband wake up and see you and start crying,
I really like you. He don't if he think the
first thing he's seen when he owe me is you,
and he just started crying.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
You have got on his last damn nerve. He is
so tired of you.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Now, now watch this, calling Shirley, watch this. The man
is over there and he's sleep on the couch and
he been drinking.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
He's drunk. Okay, got that part. Here's what I think.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
I don't think he has anything to do with this
little girl the system. What it is is he has
nothing to do with the sisterm What it is, Shirley,
is he got something to do with the other lady
that's out of town. That's where he normally, the one
that's in Honduras. He normally kicks it with her. He
been staying on that couch. He go to that couch
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all the time. He go over there and get drunk
all the time. But what the problem is he didnet
got drunk, went over there. The lady ain't there, the
sister there. The sister ain't used to that, so she like,
what the hell is this man doing? I get that part.
But the lady that's in Honduras, they kick it all
the time, and now she's gone. I'm just telling you, Shirley,
he ain't kicking with the sister. He kicking with the
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lady that's in Honduras.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
All right.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
So when you get drunk, you walk your pattern, You
walk right next door. That's what you been going, and
you go there to hang out. But she's no longer
there because she's out of town now. When the sister
get When she gets back, things will be back to
normal and the wife wan't nobody to be calling you,
and you ain't gonna be waking nobody up and the
first thing they see is you and start crying. You
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gotta understand you can got on him. I think he
messing with the other lady. That's what I think. He
has a pattern. Well, he has a pattern. He at
the house, he gets lit, He go next door, hang
out with old girl. You know, she wakes up cinema.
I know, Shirley. But when you lit, you lit. When
you lit, you walk your pattern. He walked his pattern.
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He normally go next door and hang out. Y'all don't
know what they've been doing. The sister has no earthly
idea what the hell been going on. That's why she
don't call. She said, you know, he not going to
die in here with me while I'm gonna watch. That's
all that is. He's fan. All you ladies out there, us,
all you ladies out there. If your man wake up
and see you and start crying, he do not like
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you like that.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
He don't.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
He don't.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
You didn't got to last day, man, What were you
gonna say?
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Carlo, tell me, like, what you talking about willis.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Yeah, he hangs with your lady that owns the house.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
That's who he hangs with. That's what we know. But
if you drow he don't remember that parulture.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
He has no memory.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
No, we just walking up pattern he normally walked.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
But okay, all right, listen, we'll have part two of
the Strawberry Letter coming up at twenty three minutes after
the hour. We'll talk about it more. We'll hear from
Junior right after this.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
I hate y'all. Don't have drunk thoughts, y'all.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
You're listening Morning show.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
All right, we're gonna recap today's Strawberry letter. The subject
is he was next door with the neighbors sis stir okay.
A woman wrote in she and her husband are in
a bad place right now because she found her husband
next door with the neighbor's sister. The lady called to
tell her that her husband was complaining of chest pain,
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so the wife told the woman to call nine one one,
but she said the husband didn't want to go to
the hospital. She said she didn't ask any questions. The
wife didn't. She just wanted to come over and see
how her husband was doing. She said, this strange woman
was standing outside of her neighbor's house. When she got home,
the husband was asleep on the neighbor's sofa. She woke
(07:40):
him up and he started crying. She asked him for
her baby. You in any kind of pain. He said
he was not in pain, and he had told the
woman not to call the wife.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Anybody, but huh, don't call right.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
The wife told the husband to walk home. He did.
She said nothing was wrong with him. He was just drunk. Okay,
he was just drunk. She said.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
She went off on him and he was mad. He
told her he could have died, and all he wanted.
All she wanted to do was question him about being
next door. Well, yeah, yeah, I will question you as
your wife. What are you doing next door with a stranger?
What is going on here? So this was the owner
of the house. The neighbor was in Honduras. This was
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her younger sister who was taking care of the house.
She was house sitting. Okay, do you understand what's going
on here? Because this is crazy. This letter is crazy.
But anyway, come to find out, the sister was there.
The owner of the house, the neighbor was in the Honduras,
and the sister was sober and she couldn't understand. The
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wife couldn't wire her husband was so drunk and why
did she remember her number and all this other stuff.
And the husband said he was never he never told
the woman, the younger sister, that he was having chest pain.
So the wife wants to know did she lie? Did
the sister lie to get her to come over there?
And was she trying to set the husband up?
Speaker 3 (09:07):
That's the question. Okay, yes, you got, yeah, all of
the above.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
Yeah, juniors, because this is all crazy because I don't
I don't know why.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
The wife don't have no questions, but I do.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
I have a lot of questions.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
Yeah, because I don't.
Speaker 6 (09:22):
Know how you set up that drunk with chest pains
and wake up crying. This is first of all, me
and Tommy don't know why a man over had another woman.
Your wife tapped you on the shoulder on the sofa
and you wake up saying, oh, Banita, I start crying.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
No, are you crying?
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Because he got Because but.
Speaker 6 (09:40):
The wife said, I don't have no questions. I'm trying
to figure out how he's still alive. That was my
first question because I know, I know Tash can't do
this call. I know you be the CHP's over? Why
is he still whereisdom?
Speaker 5 (09:54):
Here's a question. Since you ain't got no questions, ma'am,
here's a first question.
Speaker 6 (09:58):
Where is the police? That's the first question. Where the
camera's at? Why y'all ain't on the news this is
a story, matter of fact. Here's another question. Where don't bituary?
Where is do obituary? How can we ain't got this obituary?
He was born in seventy four, he died on July
(10:20):
twenty third, so we need something. Wait, don't bituar? Heregna
know who putting the program together? That's another question for
this funeral? Who putting the program together? See, it's a
bunch of questions you ain't asking.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
There's a question.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
And one of the photos in the program is him
laying on the couch.
Speaker 5 (10:39):
On the couch in the program time. Here has another question?
I have menswer, you don't have no questions? Who over
the who doing the eulogy? That's what we need them.
Speaker 6 (10:47):
That's a question we ain't answered that would either. Here
has another question? Who is the person that say in
my father's house? They're plenty matches it was not so.
Remember when you walk into the funeral. Somebody always up
there in my father's house there mini magic. If it
were not so, I wouldn't have told you so well.
Who's saying he laid me down by by still passion?
(11:09):
Who's who's over this?
Speaker 5 (11:11):
We need to know some people.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
You ask plenty of questions, you just ain't asking the
right one because you should have killed him. You found
him on the couch at the dable house, drunk and
drink and he wake up crying. What a yellow tape
at That's what I'm looking for.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Very very comfortable over there is too comfortable.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
He see you and just start crying.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Cry because he got Yeah, because yeah, I've been here
too long and Junior is the funeral after the ladies Honduras.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
Yeah, she got got right for her?
Speaker 3 (11:49):
We need her to beat at him right right?
Speaker 6 (11:52):
Matter of fact, who carried in the body? Who your
six on the the cast? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (12:00):
What funeral hall?
Speaker 6 (12:01):
McCoy harrison, what funeral hall were you? What funeral home
is this body gonna be at? Because I can't see
this happening.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
It was fine, he was just drunk. So this habbit'.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
No, no, you you go over to somebody.
Speaker 6 (12:18):
You cheating and you comfortable sleeping, and your wife caught
you at your cheetah.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
She an't have to go far. She walked across grass
to get you.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
I know y'all about taking that nap. I didn't tell
y'all what.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
You say about it. Tommy, don't you.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Say that nap.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Don't take it to wake up and to drive your
car into a telephone pole.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
I'm telling you, you know what I find out. Shure,
he just a lazy cheating he's next door. Didn't even
too close.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
That's too close, way too close.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
He said. At least went to he said, We at
least went two streets over, at.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
Least two streets over, just next door.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
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Speaker 3 (13:07):
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