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Letter, thanking a for you subject. Where should I sit?
There's Steven Shirley. I'm a fifty five year old married
woman and my husband is currently going through a very
disrespectful stage of life. He thinks he's a scholar and
a comedian, and he is flirtatious with younger women, my
son's girlfriend in particular. I've heard my husband congratulate my
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son on pulling someone so fine and asking questions like
where does she work work out? And is her mama
as fine as she is? I thought it was father
son bonding, but he has gotten worse. We had Memorial
Day get together and my son's girlfriend came over with
her little girl.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Excuse me.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
The little girl was attached to me because she said
I reminded her of her grandmother. The girlfriend was walking
around with a plate on the patio and all the
seats were taken, and she asked my husband where should
I sit. My super ignorant husband said I know where
you can sit, and I almost jumped up and tackled him.
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He had a dirty old man look on his face
and the girlfriend was smiling from ear to ear, so
I loudly told him to sit his ass down somewhere. Immediately,
he got bristly with me and we had a screaming
match in front of our guests. He said he wasn't
flirting and it was a joke. I took a lot.
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I take a lot of mess from him, but I
don't have to tolerate this in my house. My son
is in support of his father because maybe he he
doesn't know my husband was implying something nasty when he
said that to his girlfriend. My husband is waiting for
me to apologize, and I did not do anything wrong.
The girl was at our house again last night and
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she was acting funny too. What's going on with my husband?
Did I overreact? Or is my husband playing me for
a fool? Please?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Help.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Well, I don't think your husband's playing you for a fool.
I don't think that. Did you overreact? Well, maybe you did,
but you know, I just tell you don't second guess
yourself if you think something was going on, if you
were feeling something. You know how we are with our
intuition and all of that. We know how with other
women are at our house and if they're flirting with our.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Men and all of that.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
I mean, you know, you probably were right about your
husband's response to his son's disrespectful girlfriend.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Where do I sit and he goes? I know where
you can sit?
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Did he show her a seat or did he just
say that you said he had a dirty old man look.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
On his face.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
I just think you know, it was too bad your
husband was flirting with this young lady and allowed this
kind of foolishness to go down. And the fact that
you guys got into a screaming match at the house.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
What was that about?
Speaker 1 (03:12):
No, I mean, I think he was feeling guilty at
this point because he knew that he was flirting with
this young girl. I don't think there's no other way
for you to take it except that he was low key.
I don't know kind of hitting on her. I just say,
who does this type of thing in front of their
wife at the house. I think he was out of order,
and no, you shouldn't be expected to apologize to him.
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You weren't the one who said this to the guests.
Your husband was, and he flipped it. Now you're feeling guilty.
Now you're feeling like you should apologize, and you overreacted.
I think you're dead on your spot on and I
think you need to talk to your son too, because
he sided with his dad, your husband against you on
this one.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Steve Sulmada times agree the lot of things, and Shirley
has given some answers that I have been in total
agreement with. I think she does a fine job with
her segment on the Strawberry Letter, but sometimes she fails
in her obligation miserably, and this is the one time
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that I think she has failed. Sureley, you made some
statements in this I can't believe you made it. The
girl has not been disrespectful in here at all. The
girl ain't did nothing nothing by saying where should I
sit with not being disrespectful? Let me go through this
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letter so I can save this marriage before Shirley and
another one, Oh to break up, you might as well.
Uh you fifty six years old lady, And she says
her husband's currently going through a very disrespectful stage of life.
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Your son has a girlfriend, and you've heard your son,
your husband congratulate your son. I'm pulling somebody so fine,
asking questions like where she work out, and that's her.
Mama's fine as she is. Now, let me say something.
When my sons come home with a fine you know
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they I'm on their Instagram with them. Dad, don't want
you to meet this girl what she look like, because
I know they know so that they got an ig
page and all this heit And I'm looking at me
and I'll live vicariously through my boys, because.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
I mean, boy, I'm talking about whoo. Come on, come through, boy,
come through songs. You know I've said stuff like you
better be a hoggy show what you're working with.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Come on, boy, I see you lord and have mercy.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Girl.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
I've asked a little girl, girl, you ever had thanksgiving
us some and some well off people house, you know,
stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
You know, But so I know what he's doing.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
I thought it was father's son bonding, but he has
gotten worse. I had a Memorial Day gathering. Son's girlfriend
came over with her little girl. The little girl was
attracted to me because she said you reminded her of
her grandmother. The girlfriend was walking around with a plate
on the patio and all the seats were taken, and
she asked my husband, where should I sit? That wasn't
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being disrespectful, you said. She was walking around the patio
and all the seats were taken. She said where should
I sit? My superdignant husband said, I know where you
can sit. God, don't you almost jumped up the tackle
till we come back.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
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Speaker 1 (07:27):
All right, come on, Steve, let's recap today's strawberry letter.
The subject is where should I sit?
Speaker 4 (07:33):
This woman who's fifty five is married to this man,
she said, going through a very uh which what does
she call a disrespectful stage of life? And especially when
it comes to his son's girlfriend. And we bought over
to the house and she bang it she fine, So
he asking her questions like where you work out?
Speaker 2 (07:51):
You know, you know what is your mama as fine
as she is?
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Hell yeah, hell yeah, I can tell you right now, Yeah,
I can tell you right now here. Yes, you're find
And daddy thought that, and you thought it was father's
son bonding but didn't.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Got worse. The girl came over from Tomorrow. They bought
a little girl.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
The little girl was attracted to her mother because the
lady wrote the letter because you minded her grandmama. And
the girlfriend was walking around with a plate on the
patio and all the seats were taken. The lady said,
all the seats was taken, So she asked, my husband,
where should I sit my super ignorant husband said, I
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know where you can sit.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Oh, I know where you can sit.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
I know how I said it sick, so you want
to see huh. I almost jumped up and tackled it.
He had a dirty old man look on his face,
and the girlfriend was smiling from ear to ear. He's
flattering his son's girlfriend publicly in front of everyone. Now
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it's this bad judgment. Yep, it's just being done in
poor taste.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
But he's doing it in front of everybody, so he
don't really see the harm in it. So I loudly
told him to sit his down some way. Immediately he
got bristly with me, hold up, no, hold, hell are
you hollering at And we had a screaming match in
front of our guests. He said he wasn't flirting and
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it was a joke. Now I believe that he wasn't flirting,
but it was a joke.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Now. Was it in poor taste? Yes?
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Was the tithing of it bad, yes, But this joke
was done in front of everybody. He ain't pulling off
to the side trying to meet up with the girl.
He did this in front of everybody. I take a
lot of mess from him, But I don't have to
tolerate this in my house. My son is in support
of his father because maybe he don't know my husband
applying something nasty when he said that to his girlfriend. No,
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he wasn't implying something nasty. He was implying something escape.
He not being nasty with his son's girlfriend. Your husband
shouldn't have said it that way. And it's poor taste
and bad timing. But I know people that tell bad
distaste for jokes all the time, and I really think
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this is one of those times. And he ain't upset
with his father because he know where his father coming from.
And plus you don't know what you're not privy to
is a conversation to him and his daddy have when
you ain't around, because father and sons conversation is not
for the mothers. I can just tell y'all that right now,
what I say to Winton, Jason and Stevie that this
cannot be said in front of his sisters and his mama.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
So he didn't let one out in front of you.
That's what happened.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Now, Shirley says, trust your heart and everything, and this
disrespectful girl walking around your the girl has done nothing.
She just walking around straight up fighting and if you
got to be penalized for being fresh? No you no,
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that's exactly what you said.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Yeah I did. I did because she asked. She didn't
have to. She walking around with a plate, flouncing around.
All the seats are taken.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
No, she flounced around because she fine, it ain't flouncing
it just do what it do?
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Its shape like that? Could it move like that?
Speaker 1 (11:38):
He flirts with younger women, and his girlfriend in particular,
so he was flirting.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
No, sureley, listen, that's what the mother. The mother said,
he wasn't flirting, and it was a joke. I take
a lot of mess around, but I tolerate this a mile.
My son is im port of his father because he
don't know my husband plying something nasty when he said
that to his girlfriend was waiting for me to apologize.
And I did not do anything wrong. The girl was
at our house again last night and she was acting
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funny too. The reason she acted funny was because the
last time she was over there, y'all had a screaming
and shouting match, and she feels like it was at
her because everything was directed at her.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Oh whatever, No, we're not doing that.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
She's sitting up that.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Made all the barbecue plates. Now, little fine mama that
came up in there, you know, see his mama, the
girl that wrote the letter. She been in fifty five,
mamor day outing it's all jealousy. Fifty five looked good
on the lodder. Yeah, but we had a time.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
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Speaker 4 (13:00):
Is sho apologize to her hook for loudly going off
on him in in front of everybody.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
That part she was wrong?
Speaker 3 (13:09):
All right, I think we have to come back with
this letter.
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So here we are. We're back.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
The Strawberry letter subject today was where should I Sit?
It was from a fifty five year old woman who
wrote in because her husband is currently going through she
called a disrespectful, very disrespectful stage of life. He's being
very flirtatious with younger women and his son's girlfriend in particular,
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they had a barbecue. The young lady was there carrying
a plate and she asked where could she sit? And
the woman said, her super ignorant husband said, oh, I
know where you can sit.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
And this started a very loud fight and argument in
front of all the guests, and I realized, I said,
I know the guy that was distasteful what he said
in the time, it was all but people make distaste
for jokes all the time, they just don't know it.
But I don't think this man is trying to make
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a pass at the girl. I think he's just like
doing a dirty old man joke and it's just a
wrong place in time.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Yeah, his house in front of his wife, is his
son's girlfriend, and in front of everyone, he said it.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
And in front of everybody. But then she jumped up
and went off on the man in front of everybody.
They had a loud screaming match. And I think that
she should have said, excuse me, can I talk to
you for a second and pull him to the side
and checked it.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
But I was to say, he said what he said
in front of everyone, right, pull him to the side,
said to me, to me getting his intent.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
He thought he was being funny and a joke, bad timing,
poor choice of jokes, distasteful, But the way to check
him was not in front of everybody.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
She was wrong.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Respect, she felt disrespected.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
The wife did in front of the son is not
offend nothing okay speak speaking.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
Around. So if the married couple had a daughter who
came with a fine boy and the boyfriend said where
should I sit? And the wife said, I know where
you can sit, then how with.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
The That's not what this story is. That's not what
this story is.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
This you guys trying to flip it it, flip it
from the world flipping it.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
We're not up, Tommy, We're not flipping it at all.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
See, there's no such thing as a dirty old woman,
has a such thing as a dirty old man.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Y'all don't have dirty in this letter.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
That's not what y'all do.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
So you do, though, what was the man?
Speaker 1 (17:17):
I know where you could sit exactly? That's why he
got it right there in front of everybody.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
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