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Nephew's subject Why were they in my kitchen whispering? Dear
Steven Shirley. I've been married for eighteen years and my
husband is high school principal and I'm a retired teacher.
We host an annual Labor Day get together for his
staff and I get it catered. We have games in
the backyard for the kiddies and they enjoy swimming and
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playing in our hot tub. This year was different because
he has mostly females on staff. Most of them are
single moms, so they came with their children. Like I said,
I had the food catered and it was set up
on chasing dishes on the patio. So it was strange
that my husband kept running in and out of the house.
He said his stomach was bothering him. The last time
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he went inside, he was gone for a long time,
so I went inside to check on him. He wasn't
in any of our bathrooms in the back of the house,
so I went toward the kitchen and I heard whispering.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
I noticed the.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Laundry room door was opened and there was a towel
on the floor. I walked in on my husband and
one of the teachers in my kitchen and they stopped whispering.
Her linen shorts were wrinkled and his head was dripping
with sweat. He started rambling about this woman having a family,
having a family emergency, and she needed somewhere quiet to talk.
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I rolled my eyes, and then she started rambling. She
said she went into our laundry room to take a
phone call, and my husband shot her an angry look.
I bet he didn't expect her to admit that she
was in our laundry room. I politely told her that
whatever she had going on, she should leave my house
and go take care of it. She left, and my
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husband walked her out. A month later, he's still mad
at how I handled her. I am still mad that
she was inside my house with him? And why was
he so concerned about her problems? Okay, I couldn't agree
with you more. Why was he so concerned about her problems?
Your husband is crazy to do that so close to
home and in home, and right there under your nose.
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All the whispering, the sweating, the rambling, you know that
they were doing, the angry.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Look he shot her, all of that, the towel on
the floor. What is going on?
Speaker 1 (02:37):
I mean, how could he possibly think anything good could
come out of running in and out of the house
all during the party, only to end up in the
laundry room with a female staff member. This was really
dumb on your husband's part. Every time he ran into
the house, he was causing suspicion to you. And finally
you just went in and the woman. What was she thinking?
If it wasn't something shady going on, why didn't he
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just let you know what was happening with her? An
emergency situation usually requires all hands on deck. They should
have told you something if there was a problem. One
thing's for sure, you weren't buying their story. You told
her to leave to handle her emergency, and you told
her nicely politely, like you said, So your husband has
some nerve being mad at you.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
I say, he's your husband.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
And should be concerned about you, of course, not some
other woman that he was fooling around with in the house.
And you know that's what was going on right under
your nose, Tommy.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
He is concerned about her because he cares about her.
And you know this already. This ain't nothing we got
to take. You already know that. You know what was
going on in that launch room. You already know that.
And they used to tight spaces. They do this at
the school all the time. They've been in book rooms
and all that. They've been doing this all right. Now
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you gotta go on and take look at the whole picture.
Now it's a pool party going on, all right. So
we ain't got much of no clothes on. We had
we pretty much almost dere So it don't take long.
You already knew it. Don't take but one leg all
we needed one leg, one leg and get us there.
They was in there in that laundry room. What I'm
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upset about with you about is why it took so
long for you to go in there. You know, if
they was in there for he was in there for
a long time. Why you let a long time go by?
Why you didn't get your behind on in there and
see what's going on? Now? If you really won't proof,
that tie on the floor tells it all. I'm just
trying to take. If you won't proof, take that tie
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somewhere and get it examined. And I promise you there's
some things on there. Okay, just keeping it real with you.
I'm just letting you know. I'm just letting you know.
He don't like you the way he like her. He
don't wow after surely he sweats for her. Did you
sit there feeling that little for thing is gone? It's
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fuzzy with the with the with the with the chemistry
teacher or whoever she is, it's fuzzy with her.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
What what?
Speaker 3 (05:11):
I'm the only one fall for a teacher. I used
to like a lot of my teachers.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
What you the only one that said fuzzy? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Oh, I ain't mean it like that. That fuzzy, warm
feeling is what I mean. That's why I don't do
these damn letters, because I don't like to say something
and put my foot in my mouth. Okay, now, if
you want me to get you the Steve Harvey, see
what you really got to do? See this man right
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here ain't really in love with you so lateies, why
would you give him the time of day? I think
it's time for you to leave. That's that's that. That's that.
That's Steve Harvey mentoring if we want that, saying Thomy, saying,
why you ain't carry your ass in there early and
find out what the hell was going on? You couldn't
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got everything. Bust that dough open in that launch room.
They ain't got no being to being up in there.
When he was in there five minutes. You should have
been right on in there behind him. That's what you
should have been. But they whispering in there, and they're
whispering sweet nothings. Baby, that's what you do when you
threw you whispered sweet nothing.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
That's what they were doing.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Oh that was good. Wait till we get back to school,
Wait till we get this.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
I'm gonna meet you in the gym therapy. All right,
All right, nephew, thank you. We're gonna have him for
two of the Strawberry Letter coming up. We'll hear from
Junior as well.
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At twenty three minutes after the hour the sister day
Strawberry letter, Why were they in my kitchen whispering?
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We'll get Junior's view right after this. You're listening.
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Morning show.
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All right, here we go.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
We're gonna recap today's strawberry letter. The sub is, why
were they in my kitchen whispering? A woman wrote in
She's been married for eighteen years. Her husband is a
high school principal. She's a retired school teacher, and each
year they host a Labor Day get together for the staff,
and you know, they get it catered and everything. They
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have games for the kids in their backyard. Kids like
to go swimming, play in the hot tub, et cetera,
et cetera. The thing about this year that makes it
different is most of the staff, most of her husband's
staff are females in their single moms at that so
they brought the kids.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
The kids are running around.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Having a good time, but her husband is also running
in and out of the house. He's told his wife
that he had stomach issues. So this last time he
ran in, he stayed for a really long time, really
long time, so the wife went in to check on him.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
He got stomach problems. Maybe he's in the bathroom. He
needs some help, right.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Well, she went in the bathrooms, no sign of her husband,
so she walked through the house, went through the kitchen.
There he was in there whispering with one of his
female staff members. She also noticed that the laundry door
was opened. There was a towel on the floor, and
she walked in and her husband and this woman whispering.
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The woman's lenen shorts, the wife said, were wrinkled. Her
husband's head was dripping with sweat. He started rambling about
this woman having an emergency and that she needed somewhere
quiet to talk. So the wife rolled her eyes, and
then the woman started rambling and she said she was
in the laundry room. Then the husband shot her a
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crazy look, a mad look, because he didn't want her
to say that they were in the laundry room. Anyway,
the wife politely asked the woman to leave handle her business.
But the husband is mad at the wife because he
doesn't like the way the wife handled the female staff
member that was in her house with her husband, in
the laundry room and in the kitchen whispering.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
What So that's the pretty much the gist of this letter.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Junior.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
What you got, well, judge, for everything that you've said,
we got some questions for you too, because your question
is why were they in my kitchen whispering? Here's a
question I have. Why were you outside so long at
this party? Why are you outside here? Another question? Why
was you in the Why was you in the pool
there in the house?
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Huh?
Speaker 4 (09:21):
You outside in the backyard here? Another question? Why is
you out here fixing plates? You can't find your husband?
He missing at your house? Why why his stomach hurt?
Why you ain't give him some medicine?
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Why you take care of your baby?
Speaker 4 (09:36):
Yeah, you're talking about the kitchen. It's a lot of
things happening before you got to the kitchen. And your
my question, I tell you what here goes. Why was
you out there talking to the math teacher? What y'all
talking about your husband missing?
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Okay, okay, you know what you're worried about. Why they're
in the kitchen whispering? You know how long it's been
since he's been gone A long time. It's a lot
of things happened, shy before they even got to the kitchen.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
What was you doing?
Speaker 2 (10:05):
And where the cat?
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Williams?
Speaker 2 (10:06):
No, the word of the cat Williams, where was your
antennas they finally came out, that's why she was in there.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Now he made the whole story about uh, you know what,
she had a family emergency. Why she ain't with her family?
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Why you?
Speaker 4 (10:25):
Another question?
Speaker 1 (10:25):
How? Why you?
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Why you let her leave politely? Why she wasn't chunk politely.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Like that.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
You had about the town after this time? Why that
tie on the floor and not around her head? Understand,
you got a lot of stuff that The only question
you have is why she and my kitchen whispering?
Speaker 3 (10:46):
That's the only question you got. I can't I can't
believe my wife let me go in the house that
log would.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Call her or Shirley and now in the laundry room,
in the loner room with that.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
But we're still not gonna make this the wife's fault though.
Now this is clearly on the.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Husband and this teacher. Oh absolutely, uh huh. But she
should have busted laundry room. She should have you should
have what in the galley is going on?
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Yeah? What in the game. They should at least watched
They should at least watch that child while they was
in their.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
They couldn't do that in the wash, because as a wife,
you know where your husband is every moment, you really do,
you know what he's missing, how long he's been gone,
who else is missing along with your husband? You know,
you know, you know, absolutely yes, but still not still
her husband that I'm mad at.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Why are you outside playing with other people children?
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Why?
Speaker 2 (11:45):
I don't even know they brought on? Why you are
get doing all this? Your husb missing. I can't see this.
What were they what were they saying when they were
whispering in the kitchen?
Speaker 3 (11:57):
I was so good, it was.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
It was bad at school, but it was good. It
was good because he adrenaline.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
She was that.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
The danger of it all.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
But I'm the principal. Look tomorrow a rain of drill.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
And why why are about outside?
Speaker 3 (12:17):
We're gonna do it again.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
I got cameras at school. I know where the cameras
ain't I know where, I know where the spot said,
don't worry about that, because you were there when they
installed him. You're the principal. Yeah, that's too hard. I
don't know that's what you're in the kitchen.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Will make no damn sense. The nerving him to do
that at his house like that, that's crazy to do
it to do it at your house, at your Come on.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
And that's disrespectful for him to be mad at his wife.
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