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Subject her special healing Soup. Dear Stephen Shirley. I recently
moved to a small town and I got a great
job making great money. I'm thirty three and the woman
I'm working with. The women i'm working with are all
in their late forties and fifties. I'm respectful, but there's
a sixty year old woman that thinks she's in charge
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because she's the oldest.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
She told me to call.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Her Mama May, and she was talking down to me
a lot in the beginning. The funny part is that
I was hired as a division director, so all of
these women report to me. Mama May ran the office
before I was hired, so she's in my way. As
I try to change the culture of the office. She
does little spiteful things and then acts like she didn't
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mean any harm.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
But I'm on to her.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
I need her to retire because she's weird and she's dangerous.
I was congested for three days, so I left work
early on a Friday to get some rest. Saturday morning,
May popped up at my house with a big pot
of orange liquid dripping everywhere. She barged into my house
and plopped the pot on my stove and told me
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it was her special healing soup. She told me to
eat three bowls a day until I felt better. The
soup smelled awful, and she would not tell me what
was in it. She insisted that I eat a bowl
of it before she left. I could basically drink the
soup because everything in it was mushy. I finished most
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of it and she finally left, so I got back
in the bed. I woke up an hour later with
the worst stomach pain I had ever had. I was
in the bathroom all day and night. My nose and
my colon were clear after eating May's special soup. May
still won't say what's in her special healing soup. A
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few ladies in the office said they should have warned
me not to let May no I'm sick. Is May
a witch or something? What's in her healing soup? Well,
you know, I don't know about her being a witch
or anything like that. No one knows what's in her
healing soup because she doesn't tell it. But what I
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have to ask is where do you live that someone
could just burst in your house like that?
Speaker 2 (02:44):
I mean, was your door open? Was it unlocked? Does
Mama May have a key or something? Plus you already.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Said you need her to retire because she's weird and
dangerous and she does little spiteful things to you. But
yet you ate some nasty smelling soup that she brought
over and wouldn't say what was in it. Boy, did
you take a chance? You took a risk on that one,
didn't you. I mean, thank god you're okay, you're alive
after eating her soup, But it could have turned out
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very ugly. Now as far as her being a witch,
I mean, like I said earlier, really is this a
real question? Because who knows? I mean, we do know
she's not a snitch, because you're still trying to get
her to tell you what her healing soup the ingredients
to that was, and she won't tell you that, But
if it can cure congestion and illnesses, I guess the
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world needs to know about it. I just think you're lucky,
you know, to still be able to write us and
tell us about this, because I wouldn't have eaten the soup.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
I'll tell you that, Steve, and I know you wouldn't
have eaten it.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
All right, let's open up this letter the subject her
special healer stop soup with this statement, you stupid.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Let's just open with that. Let's go on and just
read this dumb letter.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
And try to figure out what possessed you to write
this letter with all this information in it that you,
at thirty three, have started to well, you're in a
position how to figure a lot of this stuff out.
Stephen Shirley. I recently moved to a small town. I
got a great job, making great money, thirty three, and
the women I'm working with, I'm in the late forties
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and fifties.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
I'm respectful.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Here's a problem, though, got this one sixty year old
woman that thinks she's in charge because she's the oldest.
She told me to call her Mama May, all right,
and she been talking down to you a lot in
the beginning.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
The funny party, is you hear the part that got
the letter?
Speaker 4 (04:45):
You are hired as a division leader, so all the
women report to you.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Mama May ran the office.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Before I was hired, and your letter says, so she's
in my way. Then let's stop right here. She's in
your way of running the office. You just said in
the letter that she's kind of like and you haven't
said it yet in the letter, but she's the oldest.
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And she told you to call her Mama May, and
you said she was talking down to you in the beginning.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
But you will hire as division leader. So all these
women report to me. Now, you said, Mama May.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Ran the office before I was hired, so she's in
my way. Well, seemed to me like Mama May think
you in her way. See she ran the office. You
about your little youngs up in here. Everybody got a
report to you when she been having everybody report to her.
So let me ask you a question, why is your
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position even the open?
Speaker 3 (05:58):
They didn't just not come up with that sis. You're
feeling a position? Why is that position even open?
Speaker 5 (06:06):
It's cause Mama maiden got rid of everybody.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
She might be a witch.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Mother maida got rid of everybody, and you can't talk about.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
She in your way? Oh you see none? Yea, Luca.
We come back on with t but I.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Think you already no, All right, hang on.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Coming up in twenty three minutes after the hour, Steve
will be back with part two of his response to
today's Strawberry letter, the subject her Special Healing Suit. We'll
get back into it right after this. You're listening Steve
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today's Strawberry letter. The subject her Special Healing Soup.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Got this young girl thirty three years old and moved
into this small lovely town. Got this wonderful, high paying job.
And the women that they work with, she works with
in a late forties and fifties.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
She's respectful of them. But there is a sixty you
old woman that.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Thinks she's in charge because she's the oldest. And she
told you to call her Mama mate, and she been
talking down to you a lot in the beginning. And
then you say, the funny thing is you was hired
as a division leader, the division director, so all these
women report to me. Mama May ran the office before
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I was hired, so she's in my way now. I
pointed out a very factual thought of mine. First of all,
why is your position open?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Huh? How did your job become available anyway?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Uh huh?
Speaker 4 (08:30):
And then you thought these women reported you, but you
just said Mama May thinks she run everything. And then
you said, Mama May is in your way. Now you
missing the whole letter you wrote you in Mama May's way.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Yeah, you in a wakeer, surprised.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
And then you said you're in your way because you're
trying to change the culture of the office.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Now, this is a very important line that follows.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Next, she does little spiteful things and then acts like
she didn't mean any harm.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Now, all of a sudden, this had to show up
at Yo dough with some suit. Oh you don't see
it on me?
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Why oh, now you don't put this into the game,
now you know you. But now you say she do
the spiteful things to act like she ain't mean no harm.
But you own to it, right and now your next
ten minutes. I need her to retire because she's weird
and dangers. Now here comes a chance to get somebody
out the way. She in your way. But what you
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don't know is you and little Mama May Way. I
got congested for three days, so I left work early
on Friday to go get some rest. Saturday morning, Mama
May pops up at the door with a big pot
of orange liquid dripping everywhere. She barged into my house
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and plopped the pot on my stove and told me
it was.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Her special healless soup.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
You saying in your letter, Let me quote you.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
She does spite for things and tries to act like
she didn't mean no harm.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Well, you got a big pot of spite sitting on
your stove now, because Mama May in your way.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Yeah, you and Mama made way.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Man. Mama made about this part Mama mad. She insisted
that I eat a bowl of it before she left.
I could basically drink the soup because everything in it
was mushy. The reason is mushy because she overboil it
so you wouldn't be recognized the ingredients. I finished most
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of it and she finally left, so I got back
in bed. I woke about an hour later in the
worst stomach pain I ever had. I was in the
bathroom all day and night. My nose and colon were clear,
and after eating May, after eating made special suit, May
still won't say what's in her special healing suit. A
few of the ladies in the office said they should
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have warned me not to let make know I was sick.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Is May a witch or something? What is in her
heel and something?
Speaker 4 (11:33):
Well, let me clear up something. How you think May
got in charge at.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
The office most suit?
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Oh more, mother maid and killed as some people.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Oh lor, there's some people that went home and ain't
ever came back. See everybody don't know did she show
up at the door with the healing suit?
Speaker 3 (12:02):
They just don't come back to work. No more.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
You need to do some research and find out how
many of your coworkers or former workers at the office
have been found dead in their bed like that. I'm
just gonna put it out there. Anybody want to say it? Okay,
Mama May killing people. This is a letter about potential.
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This is one you need to catch your little ignorant
kids on Facebook that do all these mass shootings and everything.
See you ignore the signs, Uncle Steve, don't ignore no signs.
This is a Facebook post warning just like them ignorant
people to be doing all the mass shootings.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Mama May is a killer.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
Mama made and kill some people before and Yo, you
ate them three bowls like she told you, Yo, wouldn't
be at work Monday morning.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Her problem solved.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Now, is Mama mate?
Speaker 6 (13:02):
Really?
Speaker 4 (13:03):
I don't think so. Did I use that as an
example to get your attention?
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (13:08):
I did.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Why did you drink the soup?
Speaker 2 (13:12):
I have no idea cause you stupid.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
I have a rule, but I don't eat from people
I don't like.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
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