Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is time now for today's Strawberry Letter, and if
you need advice on relationships, dating, work, sex, parenting, and more,
please submit your Strawberry letter to Steve HAARVIFM dot com
and click submit Strawberry Letter.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
We could be reading your letter live on the air.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Just like we're going to read this one right here,
right now, and you never know it could be yours.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
You never know. Buckle up and hold on tight. We
got it for you here.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
It is go Berby Letter.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Thank your nephew. Subject who cares if.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
His auntie hears us here? Stephen Shirley. I'm forty four
years old and my husband is forty five. We live
in a duplex that he owned before we got married,
and his aunt is renting the other half. The units
are the same, so our living room wall is on
her living room wall and our bedroom wall is on
her bedroom wall. Our upstairs balcony overlooks her upstairs balcony,
(00:51):
so we basically have no privacy.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
We even share a garage with her and a backyard.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
We need the extra income from renting it at and
we figured it would be better to rent to his
aunt than some stranger. But living next to this woman
is far worse than living next to a stranger. All
his aunt likes to do is read books and she
listens to classical music. She talks softly and hates noise.
She does not like it when I fry bacon, Burger's fish,
(01:19):
or chicken, because she said.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
She can smell it all over her house.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
That's not the half of it, though, because her main
issue is how noisy my husband and I are. I
talk loud, and I laugh loud. I'm from South Georgia,
and I sound like my daddy when I laugh. My
husband loved my laugh until his auntie started complaining about it.
He also used to love trash talking in the bedroom,
but his auntie shut all of that down too. I
(01:46):
can't yell at him from another room without his Auntie
tapping the wall to make me stop. His auntie is
sixty years old, and I wish there was a decent
brother I could hook her up with so she could
make some noise.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
In her house too.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
I told her to turn her classical music or listen
to rap music because I refuse to whisper and whimper
during sex.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
I don't care.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
What Auntie hears, but my husband covers my mouth during sex.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Why is he letting her control what we do in
our home?
Speaker 1 (02:16):
I guess because it's her, his auntie and she's older.
I mean, I could see if it was his mom.
But I'm with you, who cares? I mean, Auntie is
being ridiculous in this whole situation, and your husband has
given her too much power and say, in this situation,
she's only the boss at her house, not yours.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
And are you guys making that much noise? Though?
Speaker 1 (02:38):
I had to ask you that because I know you
said your husband had to cover your mouth during sex.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
But really, though, how much tolerant are.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
You doing over there? And your walls must be really thin?
Or does Auntie have her ear to the door or something.
I think she's nosy and rude and entitled and she
needs to stay out of your business because what does
she expect.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
You to do?
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Being in the privacy of your own home. You have
to whisper and stuff? She expects that. Come on, now,
she's a medler. She's just a meddler, you guys, and
by you guys, I mean her nephew, your husband. You
guys have to respectfully let her know and know in
certain terms as she's overstepping, knocking on the wall and
all of that, or else she'll just keep doing what
(03:23):
she's doing, meddling. I wish you could introduce her to
a nice man too. That would probably solve a lot
of her problems. She wouldn't have time to worry about
what's going down in your bedroom. So for now, I say,
get her some headphones, or threaten to raise her rent
or you know, put her out or something. I think
maybe she'll come around after you do that.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Steve, Well, you know what we're gonna have to do
is we're gonna have to see it Auntie down.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
That's what this looks like is coming to right here.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
See this couple is she's forty four, her husband for
they live in a duplex. And in this duplex they
written out the other half. The units are the same.
So our living room wall is her living room wall,
and our bedroom wall is her bedroom wall. Lord her mercy,
(04:21):
two of the loudest rooms in the house.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Boy, you look at that bathroom wall.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Ain't over there, y'all will just be it'll be this
let over damn, it'll be about suicide. Our upstairs balcony
overlooks her upstairs balcony so we basically have no privacy.
We even share garage with her in her backyard.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
This is too much, damn sharing man the balcony right
next to each other.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
Y'all stay at a hotel, and then y'all's bedroom wall
is against her bedroom wall, and living room walls against.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Living room wall. So now y'all can't do nothing.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
Here's the letter, but the whole thing the title of
this letter is who cares what the auntie? He is right,
and all she do is listen to classic music and
read books.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
That's nice. She talks softly.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
She hates noise.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Okay, she don't like it when I fry bacon, burgers,
fish or chicken, because she says she can smell it
all over her house.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Now she say that ain't the half of it though.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
See, I'm just building this story because my answer is
gonna be on the second half when we come back.
So please don't go wait, because I'm gonna explain to
you a lot of this stuff.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
I'm just going through the letter. I talk loud, and
I laugh loud.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
I'm from South Georgia, and I sound like my dad's loud.
It is so loud, but that's how my daddy laughs,
So that's how she laughed, helf for you got to
(06:14):
tone with some of the.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
See right there, don't.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
And then my.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
Husband used to love and laugh till the antstar complained
about it. And he used to love talking trash in
the bedroom. But his auntie didn't shut all that down too.
I can't yell at him from another room while her
stopping me. He knocking on the walls. His auntie is
sixty years old.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
All right, Hang on, Steve, we'll have part two of
your response coming up at twenty three minutes after the hour.
Today's strawberry letter subject who cares if his auntie hears us?
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Right after this? You're listening hard morning show. All right,
Come on, Steve.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Let's recap today's strawberry letter. The subject is who cares
if his auntie here is us?
Speaker 5 (07:01):
This couple forty and forty four and forty five and
rented out. They duplex right next door to shares a
common wall in the duplex. The bathroom, I mean, the
bedroom is shared. The wall in the living room has
a shared wall. So the ladies sixty years old. She
listened to classical music, and she read all the time,
and the lady in the house she laughed. Now she
don't like her laugh. Now her husband used to love
(07:22):
her laugh because she laughed like her daddy.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
She's from South.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
Georgia, and so now she don't like the way she laughs.
She complained about that.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Nothing wrong, I ca I can't read over there laugh.
Somebody stopped me.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
Okay, See, she don't want to hear that coming from you.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Lady, you laugh like your daddy because you're all from
South Georgia.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
She don't like the way the house smell when you
frying bacon, fish or burger, she complained. She don't want
to hear his noise from the bedroom. Now your husband
is covering your mouth doing sex. So now what I
have to do is offer you a suggestion for how
you fix this here. First of all, like I said
(08:12):
before we left, you got to change people you rent to.
You have to fish. You have to wrench your duplex
to a fat person. See, you got big people come
with certain qualities. That's wonderful. Like the next time you
find fish, bacon and burgers, what fat person you know
gonna complain? No, Now you're gonna have to make an
(08:32):
extra plate for him. But at least there won't be
no complaining. Then you need a fat person for when
you do go upstairs to your bedroom and y'all have
it all that loud sex. You ain't got to worry
about him because he ain't gonna make that trip up
them steps. He's bigg ass gonna sleep on that couch
most nights because fat people don't like steps. So you know,
like take me for example, my big fat wheeze and
(08:54):
ass when I go up steps.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
You know I remember that like that, so I have
to do that.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Good God, So I have experience with being fat person,
so you know you want to do that. So how
you you got to rich no place out to a
fat person? See that way you don't have this trouble.
Now let's get down to your real problem. Your husband
used to like talking trash when y'all was having six.
(09:23):
Now he don't want to do that no more because
she done heard that too. Oh and one other thing you,
Since she only liked listening to classical music and reading,
you suggested that she uh start listening to rapp Sure
that's not going to happen. People don't go from classical
to rap up because and she's sixty, but she's an
(09:43):
old lass sixty do see I'm sixty six.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
I'll be in there.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Girl, You show can't cook.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
If I was your neighbor, say, I'll be saying stuff
like that. You know, I'll be over that, being more encouraging.
Now here's what your problem is. When y'all in the bedroom.
You're saying that your husband covers your mouth doing sex,
You making statements. You can't say stuff. You can't say that, lady,
(10:14):
he want to cover your mouth because you make it
sound like it's abuse right here.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
You know, you know you can't holler out stuff.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Like treat me like a trick.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
You can't say that because it's just too much information.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
But she can't say, I'm telling that's why he covering
her mouth. It's cause of what she's saying.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
She's saying, like you thank it, then spank it. You
can't say that you thank you then spanky. You know
that right there, that he trying to cover your mouth.
You know you can't do that because it's too much
that's going out, And that's right to me.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
You know, come to me, Why the monk is that?
See right there, she didn't.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
Have to know nothing about these monkeys you in here
hollering out the ass stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Cut the camera off that.
Speaker 5 (11:03):
See, she didn't need to know that.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
You can't say something like oops, I slipped. You know
you can't, you know, damn you out of baby all again.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
You know, all this here stuff right here, you're saying
stuff that that she don't need to hear about it.
And now this is his aunt. So now his aunt
is asking me question. Uh uh uh uh Brelando, you
you ran o baby on that? Yeah? Oh oh you
(11:38):
dear try he forty four. He probably got a Spanish
named souave. Yeah, that's what black blacks did go through
this period where we was giving our kids Latin names.
You know, we just lost our mind that Don Shelley
Wan and all this hell Don Shelley Wan.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
You know so I think that's what's happening. Baby. You
gonna have to tone down some of the stuff you're saying,
you know, you.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Know, not the fact that she's loud, but what she's saying.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
Yeah, it's just what you're saying. And then when you
put volume on it, it just makes it worse. Any subject.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Cars run over me, see you right there.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
You can't dominoes, dominoes.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
No, Big six, baby, Big six. You better Smart That
fifteen on me Berts.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Your comments on today's Strawberry Letter and Starve Fm on
Instagram and Facebook, and check out the Strawberry Letter podcast
on the free iHeartRadio app Free Never Sounded So Good.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
You can download it today now.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Coming up at forty six minutes after the hour, it
is Junior or Steve calls him HBCU with Today's Sports Talk.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Right after this, you're listening of The Harvey Morning Show.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Mm hmm.