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February 17, 2026 13 mins

The Strawberry Letter heard on The Steve Harvey Morning Show Tuesday, February 17th, 2026. Subject: "My Bestie Got Fired Because Of Me"

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right time now for today's Strawberry Letter. And if

(00:02):
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Speaker 2 (00:18):
Buck lave and hold on tight. We got it for you.
Here it is letter.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
Thank you. Nephew's subject my best he got fired because
of me. Dear Stephen Shirley. My best friend worked as
a bartender at a popular restaurant and she introduced me
to the new manager of the restaurant recently. He's middle aged, handsome, tall,
and he has a nice beard. I was hooked on
him because of how well he carried himself, and I've

(00:43):
always been attracted to older men. This restaurant has the
best Sunday brunch and I'm always there with my bottomless
mimosas and a few of my girlfriends of my other girlfriends.
There's always a great DJ there, and on this particular Sunday,
I've been on the mimosas all afternoon. I stayed on
the dance floor twerking and having a good time. I

(01:05):
locked eyes with the manager a couple of times while
I was dancing, so I figured he was interested in
me and liked what he saw. So when I went
to the restroom, I walked past him and asked him
if he saw something he liked because I caught him staring.
He told me that I'm a beautiful woman, but I've
had too much to drink and he's not serving me
any more alcohol. I was embarrassed that he only saw

(01:28):
me as a drunk thought unlike my friends, I can
handle my liquor and I was having a great time
and being playful. Something clicked in me and I started
cursing him out for misjudging me and being rude. He
asked my best friend to come over and calm me
down and put me out. She tried to diffuse the situation,

(01:49):
but then the manager said I'm a disgrace to women
my age. My friend told him that his rudeness was
uncalled for, and he fired her right then there. He
put us both out. The job was great extra income
for her because of the great tips on Sundays. She's
upset with me and I don't know how to fix this.

(02:11):
Please help, Yeah, This is a real mess right here.
You made your girl lose her job. Did you say
something clicked in you and you started cursing him out.
But you say you can handle your liquor. None of
that goes together, okay, because here's a newsflash for you.
You can't handle your liquor. What clicked in you was drunk. Okay,

(02:36):
you were drunk. You were just displaying drunk behavior. And
despite the fact that you think you can handle your liquor,
you can't. You really can't. So the first thing I
would do is stop drinking. Okay, you gotta stop because
you can't handle it. Then I would apologize to my friend.
I really would. This is your best friend. You should

(02:58):
apologize because you were acting up in her place of business. Okay.
Then I would go and apologize and talk to her
former boss. Please be sober when you do this. I mean,
nothing may come of this, but you got to try
and talk to him. It talked him into giving your
friend her job back, you know, saying that it was
your fault. You know, blah blah blah blah blah. That
doesn't work. You help her look for another job. I mean,

(03:21):
that's the least you could do. When she gets another job.
Please you stay as far away from it as possible. Okay,
do not go anywhere near it, you know, stop drinking?

Speaker 3 (03:35):
All right, Steve, my best you got fired because of me,
pretty much says it. All. All of this is a
direct result of your behavior. From the top of the
letter to the bottom. I'm going to also show you
you're not exactly what you think you are.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
You're just not. And well it's because of one reason.
And here we go. You got to introduce you.

Speaker 3 (04:04):
You got a friend that's a bartender at this restaurant,
and you got to introduce he was she was at work,
and you got introduced to his manager, tall guy, handsome,
and you like older men, nice bed. You was hooked
on him, you know, because of how he carried himself.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
You know, I got that.

Speaker 3 (04:23):
You've always been attracted to older men. Got it gonna
com that. But the restaurant, I got the best Sunday
brunch and I'm always there with and you said my
with my bottomless mimosas and a few of my other girl.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
See, when you care.

Speaker 3 (04:44):
About any event because of the sheer amount of alcohol
that they allow you to consume, it's a tale. Tale
that's something didn't go wrong because you weren't just that
with your friend. You was dad, because I was of
the bottomless Mimosas. Then they got a great DJ. And

(05:04):
on this particular Sunday, I had been on the Mimosas
all afternoon. See, and that's another den When you say
you've been on something, you know, like if you've been
on one.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
I was on crack all afternoon. I was you. Yeah,
see you when you own something, your successive.

Speaker 3 (05:27):
I had been on the Mimosas all afternoon on them.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
I wasn't I wasn't sipping. I was on them giving
them no air. I was shogging like bell, I was
throwing it back like shots.

Speaker 3 (05:44):
And I was drinking on the Mimosas. I stayed on
the dance floor, tworking and having a good time. What girl,
you don't see this. Tworking is never for the twork

(06:04):
for the tworker, it's for the man observing the twork.
That's who is for tworking is not for the person
doing the twork. It's for the person observing the talk.
Twork is a seamet dance. Now, no, oh, I can't
stop this feeling. No, working is for everybody else I'm

(06:28):
telling you what it is, all right?

Speaker 1 (06:29):
Hold on, Steve.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
Talking, ain't got thinking about how do how you feel?

Speaker 3 (06:34):
Really?

Speaker 2 (06:35):
All right?

Speaker 1 (06:39):
Coming up in twenty three minutes after the hour. My
best he got me fired? Uh, my best he got
fired because of me? That's what I should say. That
is the subject of today's Strawberry Letter, and we'll get
back into it right after this. You're listening, Steve Hardy
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come on, let's recap today's strawberry letter. My best you
got fired because of me?

Speaker 3 (07:36):
Yeah, best free of work that bought This girl's got
a girlfrins bought tend a popular restaurant introduced her to
the new manager. She liked the manager, these old tall
weight of wige cave so and you know, she'd always
been like attracted to older men.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
This particular sunday, they got the best brunch.

Speaker 3 (07:54):
Of it, and they have right off the top where
she parted really excellent brunch. And she said, on this
particular Sunday, I'm always there with my bottomless mimosas, which
means she cares about drinking to the point where there
is no end. This is bottomless drink. I drink till
I can't even poll it in my mouth. No, she

(08:17):
pulling a drinking and it's just running down the cracks
of her mouth, all of her blouse because she just
can't putting no more in her there, because she can't
pull no more down there.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
It's but see, the.

Speaker 3 (08:28):
The mimosas might be bottomless, but sure your your your intake.

Speaker 2 (08:35):
Of them is now.

Speaker 3 (08:38):
And so what happened was this particular sunday she had
been on the.

Speaker 2 (08:42):
Mimosas all afternoon.

Speaker 3 (08:44):
We said this earlier, when you are on something that's successive,
you own crack. I was down there talking to them,
I was cussing them out our own one.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
You know, when you own.

Speaker 3 (08:55):
Something that's you accessive. So I was on the mimosas
all afternoon. I stayed on the day floor twerking and
have a good good time. Twerking is for other people,
because I didn't know that twerking is not for the twerker.
It's for the twerk key. It's for the putting who

(09:16):
season because you can't even see your doing all that.

Speaker 2 (09:20):
But if you had by a mirror, you can.

Speaker 3 (09:23):
Yeah, you bout a mirror, but the mirror ain't on
the dance floor, so it's you looking.

Speaker 2 (09:27):
No, no, you. The only reason you looking back there
is to see who looking breaking down? Not for you,
it's for the not twerker, but the twerk key. Well
let me give it to you, because watch what happens
right next. I'll stayed on dance for talking, having good.

Speaker 3 (09:47):
I locked eyes with the manager a couple of times
while I was dancing slash twerking, so I figured he
was interested in me and like what he saw.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
Twerking is ful showing, not a dance. It's an exhibition. Zippity.

Speaker 1 (10:11):
You're right about that.

Speaker 3 (10:12):
So when I went to the restroom, I walked past
him in after he saw something he liked because I
caught him stand. He told me, I'm a beautiful woman,
but I've had too much to drink, and he's not
serving me anymore alcohol because he couldn't believe this little
fine chick was out here doing all of this because
you was doing the most, because your bottomless man was

(10:35):
out there on their mimosas you done drank so many emosas.
Your judgment is impact. That's what people don't understand about alcohol.
It impairs your judgment. So now what you thought was
out there was cute was way too much. Now the
man gone, wow, this fine sister right here just got
herself looking crazy. So he told you he ain't serving

(10:58):
you no more alcohol. You ain't getting no more. You
done had your last mimosas you can't ain't no more bottom.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
So then she said, I was embarrassed that he only
saw me as a drunk thought. Oh, then you know
why you.

Speaker 3 (11:12):
Didn't see yourself as a drunk thought because you was drunk.

Speaker 2 (11:19):
See, and that alcohol is impaired your judgment. You don't know.

Speaker 3 (11:22):
You think you killing it, But he going, this chick
is way too much. Unlike my friends, I can handle
my liquor. Really what well, you just got seen as
a drunken thought and this was you unlike my friends.

Speaker 2 (11:38):
I can handle my liquor and I was having a
great time in being playful.

Speaker 3 (11:42):
Yeah, but you don't know how playful you was because
your judgment was impaired because your has had you done?

Speaker 2 (11:49):
Try to get to.

Speaker 3 (11:49):
The bottom of the mimosas and they bottom less. They
told you at the door this Sunday day.

Speaker 2 (11:54):
Bottomless.

Speaker 3 (11:56):
Now you don't put too much in your system, and
the rest of it ain't even in your blood. So
now as you're talking and having fun, as more of
it enters the bloodstream, now you wave more playful.

Speaker 2 (12:06):
Than you touch.

Speaker 3 (12:07):
You boy, Harvey's in the blood system.

Speaker 2 (12:12):
Now you oh eighty you all up at two point seven.

Speaker 3 (12:17):
You don't even know it, and you still pouring bottomless mimosa.

Speaker 2 (12:20):
You had a foux nine. You are earthquake. That's doing
serious damage.

Speaker 3 (12:27):
Who So then I'm I'm I can handle my liquor
and having a great time. Something clicked in me. Yeah,
you don't know what that was. It was different, mimosas.
Something clicked in me, and I started cussing him out
from misjudging me.

Speaker 2 (12:47):
And being rude.

Speaker 3 (12:48):
He didn't misjudge you. And yeah, boy, girl, I gotta
tell you something. You really handle your liquor. You let
your liquor drive the car. You let your liquor do
all the talking. You had your looker out there handling
and a dance routine that litt ahead Joe twerking, cussing, futing.
He asked my best friend to come over and calm

(13:09):
me down and put me out. She tried to diffuse
the situation, but then the manager said, I'm a disgrace
to women my age.

Speaker 2 (13:17):
Whoo.

Speaker 3 (13:18):
My friend told him his rudeness was uncalled for, and
he fired her right then and there.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
He put us both out.

Speaker 3 (13:24):
The job was extra income for her because she has
great tips on Sundays. She's upset with me and I
don't know how to fix this.

Speaker 2 (13:30):
Please help.

Speaker 3 (13:31):
Go to your Daryl, tell her you apologize going there,
like Shirley said, and try to get her her job back.
Probably gonna have to do some extra tworking and get it.

Speaker 1 (13:41):
Coming up next to this junior and sports talk right
after this, bless up, it's DJ Calchy.

Speaker 2 (13:48):
This your boy Chris Broke. Hey, this is Tony Braxton.
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