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July 24, 2024 13 mins

Dear Steve and Shirley, My boyfriend is the sweetest person I've ever dated. We met when he picked me up from the airport in his SUV. I had just moved to Alabama and my company hired him to be my driver until my car was delivered. He showed me around the city and introduced me to some of his female friends, but they weren't the kind of women I wanted to be associated with. They're big weed smokers and drinkers, and I'm more laid back. I needed someone to hang out with, so the driver was always available to go to dinner, festivals, and movies with me.........................................

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:24):
Thank you nephew. Subject how important is conversation when you're
in love? Dear Stephen Shirley, My boyfriend is the sweetest
person I've ever dated. We met when he picked me
up from the airport in his suv. I had just
moved to Alabama and my company hired him to be
my driver until my car was delivered. He showed me

(00:45):
around the city and introduced me to some of his
female friends, but they weren't the kind of women I
wanted to be associated with. They're big weed smokers and drinkers,
and I'm more laid back. I needed someone to hang
out with, so the driver was always available to go
to dinner, festivals, and movies with me. He's a Southerner,
so I had to get used to how he talked.

(01:08):
After a few weeks of being in a new city,
I needed sex, so I invited him to spend the night.
When I tell you, this guy knows exactly what to
do in the bed, he showed no mercy and I
was hooked. It was hard to go a day without him,
so he started staying at my house every night. We
don't talk much, but we have a lot of great sex,

(01:30):
and he's been gracious with money and doing things around
the house. I was bragging on him to my sister
and she asked if I was talking about the dude
that sounds like he rode the short bus. She FaceTime
with him a lot, and she always jokes about how
he talks. He's a fast talker, but at times he hesitates,
when he forget, when he forgets what he's about to

(01:51):
say next. He laughs at himself when he does it.
So it's never been a big deal to me. I'm
falling in love with him, So does it matter matter
what other people think? Does his good quality? Do his
good qualities override how bad he sounds when he talks?
You're kidding, right, You're thinking of throwing away a good

(02:12):
guy because you don't like the way he talks. Really,
I mean, this kind of sounds ridiculous. Don't you think
you said this guy is the sweetest person you have
ever dated. That's what you said. You said, this man
is great in bed, he's generous with his money, and
he helps you around the house. I mean, what all
do you want? I mean, obviously he likes you. He
spends time with you. He's not cheating that you know of.

(02:35):
Your sister said he sounds slow because of his southern drawl.
And I think you better watch her, by the way,
because she sounds like she's doing a little too much already,
facetiming him and all of that. Just keep your eye
on her. And I just say this to you again.
If you think he's a good guy, he sounds like
a good guy. Forget how he talks. As long as

(02:57):
he treats you well. You can understand him, right, can
understand him. It doesn't matter what anybody else thinks, especially
you're hating sister. Okay, nephew, listen, listen, listen.

Speaker 3 (03:13):
Yeah, so listen.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
I'm trying to take you up now.

Speaker 3 (03:17):
Yeah, yeah, come come back around with Red record dry.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
That's he sounds.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, look at baby, look what we gona
we gonna Wherever we give something, you know, they will
get you dream kidding Yeah yeah, look look look look
look look look look look look look look, look look
at I'm gonna go around here, get come back and
get you to be everybody.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
Need some fries.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
What you're saying?

Speaker 3 (03:48):
Hey hey, hey, hey.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
Look like link give me up. Now you're getting back.
I'm driving around here. I'm dad to take you over
my good Now maybe we nigga be danking. Look, don't
worry about that. I got your back baby with me.
Yeah ah so uh uh, Well you got a man
that can't talk. You got a man that can't talk,
but he got he got some good loving go with
him though. So you got you got to You gotta decide, babe,

(04:12):
which one you want. Either you want a man and
it's gonna talk, articulate and has everything that you're looking for.
Or you got this he'll belly show enough. That's gonna
be bringing it. And that's what you got there. And
you girl, I put this on you, gonna.

Speaker 3 (04:31):
I put this break your back.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
Okay, okay, so you got you got you a man. Yeah, yeah,
it's hard to whole that little character right there. That's
that's a that's a bit much. But anyway, you got
yourself a man. You don't know what to do, and
you know what it is, what it is, you know
you but you love him, if you care about it,

(04:58):
then it doesn't really matter. You fall in form, you know,
because you put that thing on you know, you know
what I'm saying, lifestyle. So you got your good man.
You know, every every good man is gonna have some
you know, some some some things that are are not

(05:18):
good qualities. Okay, he can't talk that well, that's all right.
But you love him, if you love him, that it
is what it is, you know, you know, uh, make
the best of it. Yeah, you know, in my past
I had some women can't talk, you know, I had
some you have, oh yeah, couldn't talk worth a dog on.
I had something I hope you know open mohamma when
we get over here, I've had some you know, but

(05:40):
you take me. But but I'm talking about dropped dead,
fine as all get out.

Speaker 3 (05:45):
What ain't nothing wrong with that?

Speaker 1 (05:47):
Everything was fine until her sister jumped.

Speaker 3 (05:49):
In, and everything fine till he tried to say something.

Speaker 1 (05:54):
Until he opened his mouth.

Speaker 3 (05:55):
He opened his mouth over there by my sister and him.

Speaker 1 (06:01):
Oh yeah, be able to stand him.

Speaker 3 (06:06):
Now come on, hey, okay, we go there and take
take it in. We're gonna go see Missy Laen and
we got to take to come on back on.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
That.

Speaker 3 (06:23):
What you like that? Don't you like that?

Speaker 2 (06:28):
You like that?

Speaker 3 (06:29):
All right, we're gonna we're gonna.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
Have part two of today's Strawberry Letter coming up at
twenty three minutes after the hour. We're here for more
from the crew. Junior.

Speaker 3 (06:41):
We can be right back right after. We'd be right yeah,
don't work here.

Speaker 1 (06:46):
Strawberry Letter subject how important is conversation when you're in love?

Speaker 3 (06:50):
Im back after this.

Speaker 1 (06:52):
You're listening morning show. All right, it's time now to
recap today's Strawberry Letter. The subject how important is conversation
when you're in love? This young woman wrote in she
says her boyfriend is the sweetest person she's ever dated.
He picked her up from the airport in his suv.
She had just moved to Alabama. Her company hired him

(07:13):
to be her driver until her car was delivered. It
takes a minute after you move to get your car,
so she had a driver for that thanks to her company,
she said. The driver showed her around the city. He
introduced her to some of his friends. They were a
little too hood to ghetto for her. They weren't her
cup of tea. They smoked weed and all that, and
they were drinking. She's a little more laid back, but

(07:35):
she did need someone to hang out with. So guess
what the driver was there. So they started hanging out. Okay,
they went to dinner, they went to festivals, movies. She said,
he's from the South. He's a Southerner, so she really
had to get used to how he talked. After a
few weeks of being in a new city, she said that,
you know, she needed some sex or whatever.

Speaker 3 (07:56):
She needed to do it.

Speaker 1 (07:57):
So she invited him to spend the night. And she said,
these are her words when I tell you, this guy
knows exactly what to do in the bed. So then
he was nice to her. He was giving her money,
all of this stuff. He helped her with things around
the house. So she started bragging to him about her

(08:18):
to her sister, and her sister said, you mean the
one that sounds like he wrote in on the short bus.

Speaker 3 (08:23):
And then she.

Speaker 1 (08:24):
Started thinking that maybe this guy wasn't right for her
because his sister face timed her a lot and she
was always joking about how he talks.

Speaker 3 (08:33):
But she said she.

Speaker 1 (08:35):
Started fall in love with the guy, so she wants
to know. Does it matter what other people like her
sister thinks, And she's asking us do his good qualities
override how bad he sounds when he talks.

Speaker 3 (08:47):
Junior talk for?

Speaker 4 (08:49):
What what are we talking for? Does sex is good?
It's people with bad sex talk great, nothing wrong. You
can understand everything they's saying. Uh, but the sex is horrible.
If you're getting good sex, what you want to talk for,
don't even worry about. Don't worry about what your sister saying.

(09:11):
Don't worry about none of that. If the sex is
this good, why talk? There's other ways to communicate. You
ain't looking at. If you can't talk, give me pen
and paper, let it write it down. That's all you
got to do.

Speaker 3 (09:23):
Understand that. Give him a pen and paper. What you say, baby,
I said, do you want to go eat? That's it?
You ain't say. He couldn't spell even say that.

Speaker 4 (09:34):
He can't say it, but he can spell it. You
can understand that. If you if if the sex is
just good. And you want to talk to him, let
him email you. He didn't saying he couldn't email. Let
him put it in an email.

Speaker 3 (09:48):
This sex is good, Junior women do like to talk,
you know what.

Speaker 4 (09:52):
Let Siri say it for it. That's some other ways
he can say it. You ain't got to worry about
him talking. This sex is good.

Speaker 3 (10:06):
What good is?

Speaker 4 (10:07):
If the sex is bad and you understand everything, you
cann be mad the whole time. But now you got
somebody who says good. You can't understand. This is your
biggest problem. Did your get get one of his relatives
to interpret it for him? Just somebody who's been talking
to him for a long time. Yeah, that's somebody. Just
tell him due, what do you say?

Speaker 3 (10:24):
Time? How you say it? He say, you want to
go to the movies and see it? Bad boys? Folk?
You want to go?

Speaker 2 (10:34):
He said? All that?

Speaker 3 (10:35):
All that right there? See that? See how that worried
somebody who has talked for him. Mid Oh, He said,
you find as hell better than miss Elliott.

Speaker 1 (10:49):
Like that.

Speaker 3 (10:50):
Yeah, that's all you gotta do. Get somebody for you
don't need.

Speaker 4 (10:54):
You ain't got to He ain't got to talk. He
brings he doing other things that may matter of fact,
you ain't even talking. You at a screaming because he
he ain't got he ain't got talking. You screaming, and
you worried.

Speaker 3 (11:06):
This is what you're doing.

Speaker 4 (11:09):
It's okay, do you if if it's sign language to
sign language, two thumbs up?

Speaker 3 (11:15):
Everybody know what? Two thumbs up me.

Speaker 2 (11:16):
That's all.

Speaker 3 (11:17):
That's all good, that's all, that's all good.

Speaker 1 (11:21):
How would he say, for instance, nephew, how would he say, uh,
vote for Kamala? How would he say that?

Speaker 2 (11:29):
Hair?

Speaker 3 (11:31):
He said?

Speaker 4 (11:32):
He said, he voting for Kamala Harris, and he's excited
about the energy surrounding her.

Speaker 3 (11:36):
He said, all that, all that, that's what that means.
It don't matter. Remember, I'm her. What are you saying?
Long time for me?

Speaker 2 (11:47):
I'm with her?

Speaker 3 (11:48):
Oh yeah, he said he was her. I'm with her,
he said, I'm with her. I know what he said?

Speaker 4 (11:54):
Yeah, all this that's all you need. Quit worry about
if he can't talk, don't worry about that. Getting everything
you want. Guy, he hang out with you, He stayed
with you, He do everything with you. Just get a
third party and let him stay in the corner while
y'all while y'all doing y'all thing.

Speaker 3 (12:12):
He can.

Speaker 4 (12:13):
He can interpret it, matter of fact, interpret interpret what
you saying. You screaming a lot, she said, our lot.

Speaker 3 (12:19):
That's it.

Speaker 1 (12:20):
If you listen to your sister, please, yeah.

Speaker 2 (12:23):
Please don't matter of fact, JR. If she go there
and get the drinking and smoke with everybody else, she
really will start understanding.

Speaker 3 (12:31):
Promise.

Speaker 2 (12:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (12:33):
With his friends that he introduced her to, she said
she was too laid back for them, though she did
say that yeah, no, no, it.

Speaker 3 (12:41):
Just doesn't matter. It's just he's a good guy. He
just can't talk. He's right.

Speaker 4 (12:44):
What we got who we got Bubba from from Forrest Gump,
Bubba Gump, about that shrimp.

Speaker 3 (12:50):
About that shrimp. That's it. I'm matter. I wouldn't be
worried if I would, you ma'am right.

Speaker 1 (12:56):
So basically, you're saying his good qualities do override bad
he sounds when he talks. All right, guys, You can
leave your comments on Today's letter on Instagram at Steve
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(13:17):
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