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Speaker 1 (00:22):
It is Strawberry Letter, subject my neighbor's T shirt in
our garage. Dear Stephen Shirley, I'm a forty four year
old married woman and my husband broke his leg in
several places in a bad car crash.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
He's been off his feet for three.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Months and I set him up in our downstairs bedroom.
He owns a car wash and has always been very active,
so when he couldn't go to work or do anything
around the house, he went through a bout of depression.
The medication made him sleep a lot, and I felt
really bad for him. Now that he's up and back
on his feet, he's got a bad attitude and the
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smallest thing set him off.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
And all we do is argue.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
He was in the garage yesterday putting out trash and
he saw a man's T shirt behind the garbage can.
I had no idea whose shirt it was because he
often takes my old T shirts and his old T
shirts to the car wash to use his rags. I
didn't even think that it could be our neighbor's shirt,
but it was. When my husband was down and out,
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our next door neighbors came to my aid. They're very
Christian couple and sweet as can be. The husband helped
me with putting out the trash, and he helped with
keeping the yard up. The wife made a couple of
meals for us, and she did a few grocery store
runs for me. I owe them the world for their help,
but my husband has been very disrespectful because he found
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the neighbor's T shirt. I told my husband that the
man probably took the shirt off while he was helping
us because it was really hot, or he meant to
throw the shirt away because it was too soiled. My
husband thinks I was sneaking around with this much older,
overweight man next door. It's so embarrassing, and I can't
stand the way he's treating them. I can't apologize enough
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to the neighbors. How do I get my crazy husband
to stop tripping? Well, if I were you, I would
just stop entertaining this foolishness. I would just stop. I
wouldn't even pay attention to it. Your husband knows better.
He knows the T shirt was there just for the
reason you said. Either your neighbor meant to throw it
away when he was over there helping, or he took
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the shirt off because it was too hot. It takes
two people to argue, so just stop arguing with him
about this. He's back up and on his feet now,
thanks to you guys. So what's his problem now? He's ungrateful.
I think that's what it is. He's just ungrateful, and
that's a character flaw. I mean, the people went out
of their way to help him and you while he
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was down, and this is the things that you all get.
I say, let him know, sit him down, Let him
know that he can stay stuck on stupid if he
wants to, but you want no part of his bad behavior.
When he brings it up again, ignore him, Remind him
that just life is too short to be arguing over
the arguing over this dumb stuff. He should be thanking
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you he should be loving you right now. But you know,
for how well you took care of him during those
three months, he should be glad to be alive after
that horrible car accident and treating the neighbors with kindness
and respect as well. This is crazy, and you're you're right.
Your husband is crazy. Hopefully he'll get it together. Maybe
it's the meds. Maybe is he still on the meds.
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Maybe it's the meds.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Check that out. Anyway, I'm done, Steve.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
That ain't unsurely. I got your bag. Don't worry about
a beautiful response. I loved the way you handled and
everything and made a lot of sense everything you were saying.
This man is should let me go and take it
from here. He got some inside on this. I know
this story all too well right here. I've seen this
movie before. I know how it ended. Now I'm going
to guide you through this letter. I'm gonna tell you
what it is. I know y'all always think I'm always
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talking about hell, but I know what I'm talking about
when he come to me. This is a man issue.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Farty for your old lady.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Husband broke his leg in several places. It's several places,
really in a car crash. He been off his feet
for three months. All this is key information. You set
him up in the downstairs bedroom. Now he had car washing.
He's always been ever active, but when he couldn't go
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to work or do anything around the house, he went
through about of depression. Medication made him sleep a lot.
I really felt bad for him. Now he's up and
back on his feet, but he's got a bad attitude
and the smallest things set him off at All we
do is uk Hill is the letter right here. What
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happened is your husband has allowed his condition to affect
his attitude instead of his attitude controlling the condition. He
broke his leg. He ain't lose his leg. Ain't like
somebody came took it off. There are people who are
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amputees who have the most courage and have the best
attitude of people I've seen with two legs.
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They don't stop, won't stop, can't stop.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
They do things that people with two legs wouldn't even
dare to attempt. They out there skiing, they out there snowboarding,
they out there climbing, They're out there playing sports.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
They in leagues and everything. And your husband sit over
here broke leg.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Now he hain Now he ain't.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
They thing ain't no more now here what really happened?
And next way the ladies.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Is gonna Dissua set around on his for three months
sleeping and eating.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Nah, he fat. He'd have gained weight.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Now nah nah.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
With this new weight game. He now got a bad attitude.
Now he mad at everybody else cause he broke he leave.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Nah, he's fat. He ain't what he was, et cetera.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Three months of sleeping and eating.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Oh they bought or swoll. Now we'll get into the
T shirt when I.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Come back and tell you why he's overreacting about this
T shirt, and I will tell you how you should
have handled the T shirt.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
All right, it comes some more life.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
We'll have part two of Steve's response coming up to
today's Strawberry letter. My neighbor's T shirt is in our garage.
My neighbor's T shirt in our garage. That's coming up
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Speaker 2 (07:26):
All right, come on, Steve.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Let's recap today's strawberry letter. My neighbor's t shirt in
our garage.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Well, here we go. It's forty for you, old moment.
It's married to this man that had.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
A car wash.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Always been very active, but he got in a car
accident and he broke a leg in three places. Nah,
he wasn't active anymore. For three months. He been sitting
around eating. The med's got him sleepy all the time,
eating and sleeping and sitting around doing nothing.
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Calorie count is high.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Teter's just sitting up there with gravy and a cup
with he's grazing a beverage. Ain't you just sitting up
just picking up weight? You felt bad for him? Now
he back on his feet. He got a bad attitude.
Small at things set him off, and all we do
is argue.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
He ain't what he was.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
He'd elected condition of the breakage affect his attitude, instead
of letting his attitude affect the condition of the break
He didn't have to change.
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He changed on his own. Now.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
He in the garage the other day, putting out the
trash hit the problem. He saw a man's T shirt
behind the garbage cap. I had no idea whose shirt
it was because he often takes our old T shirts
up to the carwas use him as rags right down.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
You had no idea who the T shirt was.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
I didn't even think it could be our neighbor's T shirt. Okay,
but it was what you mean, but it was. You
had no idea it could be your neighbor's T shirt.
But it was who fought it up, who suggested that
this is the neighbor's T shirt.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Shut shouldn't mind, stupid, so she shouldn't have said anything.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
About what she already said. She has no idea who
the T shirt was because he often take the T
shirt to the car wash. I didn't even think it
could be our neighbor's shirt, but it was, say hell,
you mean, budd, it was stick to your story. You
don't know nothing about the T shirt? What is wrong
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with y'all? You didn't even have to lie. You could
have just stuck to your story. When my husband was
down and out, our next door neighbor came to my aid,
this ain't looking good. They are very Christian couple, sweet
as can be Christians.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
They have a fans.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Hurt me by putting out the trash, and he helped
keeping the yard up, and the wife made a couple of.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Meals for her. She did the grocery store run for me.
I owed him the.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Weld and that Why is there all him? You cooking
running stove for you? What happened to your leg?
Speaker 2 (10:15):
She can't do everything?
Speaker 4 (10:16):
What was she doing? Fat boy was in here sleep.
He can't go nowhere. Ain't like he had to sit
down and peel on herself.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
What is she doing? He broke his leg? He ain't
got bold trouble.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
She did not have sex with that man.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
I didn't know. I know she didn't.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
I know she didn't. But shut your mouth. You don't
know whose T shirt it is? Why why you're talking about?
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Yeah it is he is. I owed him the world
for helping.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
But my husband being very disrespectful because he found out
the Navy T shirt.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
But he disrespectful to you though.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
I told my husband that the man probably took the
shirt off while he was helped.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
What did you just say?
Speaker 4 (11:00):
You told your husband that the man probably took the
shirt off. Why he was helping us because it was
really hot. He you tear your shirt off for hell?
Now you just sad you didn't know whose T shirt was.
Now you're creating scenarios and stories for his dumb to
latch on too.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Tout his shirt off because it's too hot.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
It ain't that hot, and he meant to throw the
show away, but it was too sold. My husband think
I was sneaking around with this much older overweight man
next dope. And you know why he was thinking. You
might be messing around with the much older overweight man
next dope, because you're still messing around with his now
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much overweight, because he does set up in here and
beating thing dogs and chips for.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Three months with his little bro You meann broke you leg.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
He broke his legs, so boy, but all you had
to do was shut your mount here. You are creating scenarios.
Ain't got nothing doing nothing. He probably took his shirt
off help it. He got hot? What old fat Christian
you know do that? Heak and Patterson used to work
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every every week on the building for he never took
your shirt off. Put steps down to the basement of
the church. They never took your shirt off? How to
hear we have air condition about It's so embarrassing that
I can't stand the way he treating them. I can't
apologize enough of that. How could I get my crazy
husband and stop tripping? Your husband, stoop? He mad hisself
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because he was in the car accident. Now he want
everybody feel sorry for him. Should have stuck to your story.
There is no solution for this except now you have
learned a lessen. Quit running your The story is I
don't know whose shirt it is.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Don't be in there talking about know he took it.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Off when he got hot.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
You're just putting bullets in the gun.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
All right, thank you, Steve.
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