We’re Not Going to Make It ‘Til November

Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm a forty seven year old, married married man. My wife's twenty nine year old niece got divorced recently and moved back to town. Her daughter is in a really good preschool that happens to be by our house. So my wife asked if she and her daughter can stay at our house until November, when her alimony payments start and she can move into her own house. She works part time for now, and I work second shift, so I don't head out to work until two pm daily. My wife goes to work around seven am, and she drops the kid off at school. 

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Speaker 1 (00:32):
All right, thank you. Nev subject We're not gonna make
it till November. Dear Stephen Shirley, I'm a forty seven
year old, married married man. My wife's twenty nine year
old niece got divorced recently and moved back to town.
Her daughter is in a really good preschool that happens
to be by our house. So my wife asked if
she and her daughter can stay at our house until November,

(00:54):
when her alimony payments start and she can move into
her own house. She works part time for now, and
I work second shift, so I don't head out to
work until two pm daily. My wife goes to work
around seven am, and she drops the kid off at school.
The niece cooks me breakfast every morning. She told me
it's the least she can do for staying with us

(01:15):
for free. She can really cook too. I never had
homemade French toast or an egg white omelet. She cooks
in her pajamas, and I'm very comfortable with it, but
I wonder if she would put on a robe if
my wife was home. I get a lot of mixed
signals from this woman. She opened up about why her
marriage didn't work, and she looks sad a lot. I

(01:37):
want to reach out and hug her, but I can't
get close to her without being nervous. I'm not that strong.
I feel like she's flirting with me in a way.
The other day she had a job interview, and she
looks so good. After she got dressed, she asked me
to zip up her dress, and my hands were shaking.
I could feel her heart racing too. I don't think

(01:59):
we're going to make it until November. She has not
told my wife that she has been cooking for me,
or that she confides in me. She asked me to
keep that between us. What's up with this woman. Is
she waiting for me to make a move or am
I dreaming? What should I do?

Speaker 2 (02:15):
Well?

Speaker 1 (02:16):
One thing is true for sure. If you guys keep
this up, you will not make it until the weekend.
Forget November, you won't make it till the weekend. There's
way too much sexual tension going on in this house. Yes,
I think she's flirting and you know, trying to you know, yeah,
I think she's flirting with you. And as nice as

(02:36):
your wife has been to her, I don't think that
she should turn around and do her sister like that.
Your wife has opened up her home, not her husband. Okay,
the husband is off limits. You should be nervous because
your wife's sister will have you caught up. She'll have
you divorced if you decide to take her on. You
haven't thought this through. I know you're a man. You

(02:58):
gotta use your brain, not your body parts in this situation.
And you know what I mean. Do not gamble with
her sister. Don't do this. It's not worth it. You've
got too much to lose. Don't be stupid, Okay, do not.
Don't be stupid and lose everything. I know it's hard
to say no, you know, with her walking around in
her pj's and asking you to zip her dress up

(03:19):
and all that, and confiding in you, and look at
I know that she's cooking for you. You said she
can really really cook. You got to stop all this,
Stop being around her, stop eating her meals, stop zipping
up her dresses. You can't do that. You're a grown man.
You do have self control. You can say no if
it goes any further. But if you have to, just
leave the house, because you definitely aren't gonna make it

(03:42):
until November, like I said, you won't make it till
the weekend.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
Tommy, oh man, I feel so sorry for this brother.
I have a sympathy for him. I do because this
right here is a prime exact ample of ass and eggs.
That's what this is. This is all about ass and eggs.

(04:08):
That's what this is. You understand, That's what this is?
What you know? What? This is? Ass and eggs. That's
what it is now, y'all y'all, yeah, I know y'all
might not be with me on it, but I'm there.
Mixed signals. What is that? Ass and eggs? That's what that?
No road? No road?

Speaker 1 (04:26):
What?

Speaker 2 (04:27):
What? What? What?

Speaker 1 (04:27):
What?

Speaker 2 (04:27):
Is that you already know that is. That's ass and eggs.
That's what this he is. Come on, but but but
every man needs that to start his day. You understand
what I'm saying. That's how men love to start their day.
Before I get on the radio, that's the first thing
I'm asking. Okay, all right, okay, I'm sorry, caller. If

(04:49):
I go to the doctor's, I don't want to go
to a doctor that is stressed. I want to go
to a doctor who has had what he's doing just
fast together? What it's too much? Too? What? What? When
I go to the nail shop, I want my nail
tach to halgs. Stop saying you happen to have my

(05:11):
hands and feet in your hand, and you don't feel
relaxed and stress when I when I get to church
on Sunday, I want.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
To don't say don't say eat, don't say nothing.

Speaker 2 (05:23):
Move on. Okay, But y'all, y'all think passing like we
get it.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
We get what you.

Speaker 2 (05:29):
Okay, we're gonna say A and E not the network,
but an E. Okay, an E, an E, A and
E how about that? An E? All right, So let
me go ahead and tell you there's no way, ain't
no way, no Vember happening. This thing to happen. I
promise you this week is going down because every time

(05:50):
I have helped, every time I have zipped somebody up,
I have zipped them. I have zipped them right back down.
I'm just gonna one more time time I have zipped
someone up, I have zipped them right back down. I'm sorry.
I can't zip you up and not zip you down

(06:11):
at the same time. I'm sorry. This is just A
and E at his best. Every man driving right now,
the truck drivers, all of them love a little A
and E in the morning before going to work. A
and E. It just helps us get through our day.
Am I right?

Speaker 1 (06:28):
Man?

Speaker 2 (06:29):
All all you men out there, blow your horns. If
A and E is what you're really talking about, A
and E, come on, blow your horn for some A
and E.

Speaker 1 (06:37):
We'll have part two of Strawberry Letter Response coming up
at twenty three minutes after the hour. The subject is
We're not gonna make it till November. We'll get back
into it right after this.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
Everything I've zipped up, I've zip right back down.

Speaker 1 (06:52):
You're listening Morning Show, all right, It's time now to
recap today's strawberry letter. The subject is we're not going
to make it till November. Now what you thought at first? Huh?
This was written by a man, a forty seven year
old married man who says that his wife's twenty nine
year old niece got divorced recently, so she moved back

(07:15):
to town. His wife as the niece to move in
with them until she gets her alimony in November. So
the niece moved in. She has a little girl. The
little girl goes to school near them, So the wife
gets up and leaves early in the morning, takes the
baby to school and all of that to preschool. Meanwhile,

(07:35):
the husband works a second shift, so he's at home.
The niece, a twenty nine year old niece, has a
part time job, so she's at home. So what's going
on at home while the wife is at work. Well,
the husband gets breakfast every morning from the twenty nine
year old niece, and he says she can really cook.

(07:55):
She makes him fresh toast, egg white, omelets, tommy and
all of that. She cooks in her pjs. She doesn't
have a robe on. Yeah, so yeah, and he thinks
that she's giving him mixed signals the niece because he
thinks she's flirting with him in a way. She asked

(08:17):
him to unzip her dress. I mean to zip her
dress back up because she had a job interview. He says,
she was looking so good that day. He could barely
zip it up because his hands were shaking so much.
Because it's a lot of sexual tension going on in
this house, she confides in the husband. But she has
told him not to tell the wife what she and

(08:38):
the husband talk about. All right, keep that between them.
So he wants to know what is up with this woman.
Is she waiting for him to make the first move
or is he dreaming? And what should he do? All right,
I said, do not get involved with this young woman
at all. He could don't gamble with her. He could
lose everything. Tommy said, A and E.

Speaker 2 (09:01):
What everybody stop saying? Eggs you bring it up?

Speaker 1 (09:07):
Just a quick preview, all right, And Junior, now it's
on you. Uh, we're not going to make it till November.

Speaker 2 (09:14):
Listen.

Speaker 3 (09:17):
All I know is you're gonna have to stop eating
breakfast in the morning. You gonna have to stop eating
his breakfast in the morning. You forty seven, She twenty nine.
You ain't got no business in there. You know, Judge
Lenn Toler has a show called Divorce Court. I don't
know if y'all seen it. Yeah, yeah, I'll watch it
a lot, and you're finna be on it. Behind some

(09:39):
French toats and some omelets. Go in there and tell
Judge Toler on this tailer how good the French toast
eggs was, and the French toes and them egg white
omelets that Joe brother has.

Speaker 2 (09:51):
Say you ain't never had.

Speaker 3 (09:52):
I ain't never had French toast and an egg white omelet?

Speaker 2 (09:56):
You forty seven? Where have you been?

Speaker 3 (09:58):
They've been making French toast from scratch?

Speaker 2 (10:00):
Do you think you get the French toast make pancakes
that hole from scratching? You gotta got batter mix. It's
just better.

Speaker 3 (10:08):
It's the same thing. It's the same exact thing. But
you know, but here's some things you feel to lose,
Like your house. You gotta tell Judge lin told about
your house because you feel to lose that.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
Uh. Your car, you finna lose that too. Uh.

Speaker 3 (10:21):
The alimony that she waiting to get you finish start
paying because you're.

Speaker 2 (10:24):
Gonna have to pay that as well.

Speaker 3 (10:25):
Uh, your kids every other weekend. Start thinking about that.
Start thinking about that. Uh, the pajamas you was looking at,
that's gonna cost you everything. Don't even worry about zipping
her dress up. Tell her to go in that closet,
get a wild hanger.

Speaker 2 (10:39):
Undo it and try to break in your car.

Speaker 3 (10:42):
Like you're breaking your car with a wild hanger. Try
to zip it up over your back like that. That's
how you zip your dress up. Don't put your hands
on this because I seen Weisha do it.

Speaker 2 (10:52):
That's how I know. Yeah, that's how I know. That's
how you zip your dress up. Yeah, undo a hanger.

Speaker 3 (10:59):
Look in the mirror and put that like just like
we try to break in our car, We put that
hanger trying to undlock that lot.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
Do the same thing with you. You said, it's just
like that.

Speaker 3 (11:09):
Just you gotta been in the hanger the same way.

Speaker 2 (11:11):
It's the same. We've all broke in a car.

Speaker 3 (11:14):
Call you never got your keys in the.

Speaker 2 (11:19):
Car and you are you guys, are we broken into
our own car? Come on, yeah, it's ours now.

Speaker 3 (11:26):
I know some people who have doesn't have to get
somebody else's car, But I knocked them.

Speaker 2 (11:29):
People steed and broke into people stuff that's she's doing.

Speaker 3 (11:34):
That's nothing to say, okay, because you know and you
you need to do is get off this second shift
and get on first shift. You do, and how you
need to do is take the baby to school your
damn self, because you're gonna lose everything. I'll take the baby,
take the baby to school, and then you go to work.
You everybody lead a house at seven, is what I'm saying. Everybody,

(11:55):
you don't. She's been there by herself because you keep
getting up.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
Everyone keep But is she flirting with you? I don't
know if she flirts. I don't know what she's doing.
But you need to be on first shift. You need
to go in and change. Put your request in jor
you take the baby. I'll zip her up though. You
go ahead and take me. I got the zipped I
got you gonna zip up. I like the house I
live in. I don't want to lose it. I'm like, man,

(12:18):
we're not leaving a perfect good zipp or unzipped up,
zipped up.

Speaker 3 (12:25):
Tell her, hey, go in that mirror, look around your back,
look over your shoulder and cap said hanging and zip
it up.

Speaker 2 (12:31):
Pull it.

Speaker 1 (12:32):
What would you guys do in that situation. I mean.

Speaker 2 (12:36):
At my house. No, no, no, I'm not I'm not
doing that.

Speaker 1 (12:40):
You're not gonna be around this.

Speaker 2 (12:41):
I'm not gonna be nowhere near this little girl.

Speaker 3 (12:45):
I'm gonna cut the gas off in the house.

Speaker 2 (12:48):
We're not making breakfast. That's what.

Speaker 3 (12:51):
This stove would not be hot by the time she
get ready to make breakfast. We ain't got no gas
in here.

Speaker 2 (12:58):
Somebody's restaurant eat breakfast.

Speaker 1 (13:00):
That's too much, right, you can lose everything, that's right?

Speaker 2 (13:05):
All right?

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