September 13, 2024 • 12 mins
Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm married and I think we have a rodent problem in our house because of my husband's friend. Let me be clear. We don't have a filthy house, and we don't eat anywhere but in our kitchen and occasionally in our living room. My husband got out of the military a few years ago and we chose to settle down in a metropolitan area. When our friends come to town, they always want to stay with us. So when my husband's friend got out of the military, he has to stay with us for a while while he looked for a house in our area. Since he's been in our home, there have been certain smells that I have never experienced before...............................................................
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is time now for today's Strawberry Letter, and if
you need advice on relationships, work, sex, parenting, and more,
please submit your Strawberry Letter to STEVEHARBFM dot com and
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
Buckle up and hold on tight. We got it for you.
Here it is Strawberry Letter.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Thank you. A few subjects. It's between me and the mouse. Okay,
Dear Stephen Shirley, I'm married and I think we have
a rodent problem in our house because of my husband's friend.
Let me be clear. We don't have a filthy house,
and we don't eat anywhere but in our kitchen and
occasionally in our living room. My husband got out of
(00:46):
the military a few years ago and we chose to
settle down in a metropolitan area. When our friends come to town,
they always want to stay with us. So when my
husband's friend got out of the military, he has to
stay with us for a while while he looked for
a house in our area. Since he's been in our home,
there have been certain smells that I have never experienced before.
(01:09):
My husband said that his friend is into holistic healing
and all different kinds of body oils. I told his friend,
we believe in the Lord and we go to the
hospital if something is wrong with us. We got into
a big argument over his holistic healing theories. And besides
the stench coming from our guest room, I saw something
tiny and black running really fast out of the room.
(01:32):
I told my husband that it might be a mouse
and it probably came from his friend's luggage. My husband
said that I am taking things too far because I
don't like his friend. That same night, we were in
the shower together with the walls all steamed up, and
I saw a small black speck on the floor. I
yelled that it was a mouse. My husband has perfect
(01:53):
vision and I wear glasses, so if I saw it,
I know he saw it. Whatever it was, it quickly
ran away. That oily man has brought rodents into our house,
and my husband allowed this man and his mouse to
stay here as long as he needs to. Why is
my husband insisting on making me miserable? What do I do? Well? Geez,
(02:18):
I never tell anyone to leave their house but they're
extenuating circumstances all the time. But this is not good,
and I'm really with you. It's the man or the
mouse or me. I mean, this is your house too,
and I gotta ask you what is wrong with your husband?
Why is he so insistent upon letting this man stay
(02:39):
in your house? And why is he making excuses for
his stinky oils and stuff. There's such a thing as
wearing out ones welcome, and I think his friend is
way overdue. The friend and and the mouse need to
get out. I say, call the exterminator right now. Have
them come to your house and exterminate. Do what they do.
(03:00):
Either the little rodent nor the friend can continue to
have free reign in your house. This is craziness. Let
your husband know his friend's time is up, so you
guys can get back to living your own lives.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Steve, Well, I see another problem here. You know everything
you say is fine, sheerly, but you know you married
now and you say you got a roading problem, okay,
and you say it's because of your husband's friend. Now,
how is that so? Now? Then she tried to Now
(03:33):
here's the Let me be clear, we don't have a
filthy house, and we don't eat anywhere but in our
kitchen and occasionally in our living room. That ain't got
nothing to do with this mouse. Now, I just want
to point that out. Now, you might be blaming the
wrong person. I don't doubt that you got a mouse
(03:54):
in the house, but that ain't got nothing to do
with your house being filthy. It would add to it,
of course, but you can get a roading up in there.
I mean, how do they get in your house? Anyway?
Through a crack of crevices under the doorway. It could
be anyway they get in they come in outside do
you depend on where you live. It could be a
(04:16):
you know, a few mouths, or it could be a
mouse from a neighbor's house. You know, they got legs.
They travel anyway. Your husband got out the military chose
to settle down in the metropolitan area, which is known
to have mice and rats. Just want to point that out.
Metropolitan area. You know that it's called the city, y'all.
(04:39):
I don't know if you ever heard of this place
called New.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
York or Paris.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Get out there early in the morning and walk to
work and see what you see. When your friends come to town,
they always want to stay with us. So my husband
friend got out the military, came down there and stay
with y'all. He got all types of smells I've never
experienced before, and he said, because your husband friend is
in the holistic healing and all different kinds of body
(05:05):
of alls. I told his friend, we believe in the
Lord and we go to the hospital when some I'm wrong.
See it right there, that's that old closed mind thinking
there is nothing wrong with holistic healing. There is a
place for when you got to go to the hospital.
I'll give you example. If you fall and break your arm,
(05:26):
you got to carryo ass to the hospital. You I
don't know what you fin to put some vinegar around
your arm with a garlic cloth on it and gingerbread
are packed on it with wrapped in a cabbage leaf.
Your arms still gonna be broken. There is a time
to go to the hospital. But there's a lot of
holistic stuff that you can do that's very very helpful
(05:49):
for you. Nature is healing. But you old school, so
gay ass on down to the hospital. Now. Remember when
you get to the hospital, y'all, remember the one thing
they are not into cures at the hospital. They are
into treatments. There's a difference. They are into treatments, not cures.
(06:11):
They make money off to you. If the hospital cured everybody,
if doctors cured everybody, there would be no more income.
But they will treat you though, they'll give you a peal.
That's just a personal note. Now, when I come back,
I'm gonna tell you where I think the damn rat
came from.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
All right, we'll have part two of Steve's response coming
up at twenty three minutes after the hour of The
subject for today is It's.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Between Me and the mouse. And I want to thank
my friend Carla for sending me a meme of a
mouse yesterday. You're well, you know you did it. You
know you did it back right after this, you're listening
morning show. All right, Steve, let's recap today's Strawberry letter.
The subjects is it's between me and the mouse.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Well, we got this lady that's got a husband that's
in the military, and they have people staying at their
house from time to time, and the husband's friend is
staying over from military and he's in the holistic healing
and he got a lot of owls and body stuff
and smells. That's coming from the room that he's staying at.
But the problem is not that they are. They got
into a bigger argument about his holistic stuff, and she
(07:27):
told him we know the Lord and we go to
the hospital when something wrong. Okay, well, okay, that's an
argument that can be had. I understand both sides. Problem is,
you saw a mouse, a little black thing that ran
real fast from his room. All right, Now, smells can
(07:49):
attract rodents, Smells attract flies. The flies is coming odors
at insects and rodents. That could be where the road
it came from. I doubt, very seriously if anybody's traveling
with a with a mouse in their pocket, or I
(08:12):
doubt if anybody's got a mouse in their luggage in
their pocket. Yeah, I just think the rat came in
the house. Now, it could have came in there because
of the smells, the sudden, weird smells. That's why he
could have come into your house. You don't know, but
you're blaming this man, and now you want the man
to go. Your husband say, you're overreacted. What got y'all
(08:35):
was you was in the shower with your husband handling
your business. You saw something black on the floor run
real fast. You say you need glasses, and your husband
got perfect vision, so you know he saw it. He
probably did. But I'm gonna tell you we as men,
when we see something wrong at the house, we be quiet.
(08:59):
We gonna run that flag up. We don't go, oh wow,
there here's a mouse in here drags. We just handle
it because it ain't no need of making this no
bigger than it is. He could have seen the mouse.
But what I don't understand is why why are we
still writing about the damn mouse? Though?
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Because it's a mouse in the house.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
What you get rid of that mouse so fast? Let
me give you my experience.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Upset about this, I'm not.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
I promise you in three days you won't see no
trace of mouse. First of all, they have this item
out called dcon Open it up, you tag the package.
It has an aroma that attracts rotors. They eat the road,
they eat it. The stuff in the decon makes the
mouse thirsty. It creates a thirst. Then they go to
(09:56):
wherever they water source is licking water off for condensation, piper,
a leak or something, and they go get some water.
Once they get the water, the water blows them up
and they die. Okay, So now they have old fashioned
stuff like mouse traps. Put a piece of meat and
cheese on it, Pam, shut him down, crack him in half.
(10:17):
Now you got to do discussed picking him up. My
favorite is the mouse trap, the glue trap. I like
it when they get stuck on it and they be hollering.
Then their friends come out to see what's wrong. When
they try to help, they just ass is stuck on
the two. I love him glue traps. There's so many
ways to get rid of that. You could buy a cat,
I trust me, in two days, the damn mouse is gone.
(10:40):
Cats don't miss the hats. Don't miss the mouse is
not the problem. The real problem is you don't like
the man. Y'all have a big ass argument and now
you want the man. Go now them alls that you
smelling that you see like, I knew this dude in
New York. He was a Musk oil salesman. And every
(11:01):
time I be walking down the street in New York
and Harlem, stay, what's up? A cool dude man? I
loved him and I would buy oils from him and everything.
But you're not really I'm not. I don't like them
alls on the street like that. That ain't you know?
I like? I like my smell coming from a counter
inside the departments. I don't want to smell like a
(11:26):
clothes you know, driftwood log, you know. I don't want
to smell like fern old mouse, because when you put
that on, you just smell like a whole last person.
It's like when you go over your grandmama's house and
walk in the house, and whole house smell like mouth balls.
(11:48):
But it ain't a moth in there there, and it
ain't none of they clothes got holes in it. I
don't know why I'm going with this. I just said, Hey,
if you want to get rid of the mouse, you
can get rid of the mouse. But where the mouse
ain't the problem? You don't like the man. The man
is over there and you don't like him, So how
long is he going to be there? He'd be there
till his friends, said the military friends. They probably got
(12:09):
shot together something or something more. I can read a
whole story. He saved my life. Yeah, make up a store,
all right, leave your comments on today to the bunker.
He pulled it in and threw it back out, saved
our life.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
He got to stay here on Instagram or face. He's
been here a long time. Instagram or Facebook.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
And Steve Harvey he had to save my life. I
wouldn't even be here.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Check out the Strawberry Letter podcast on the free iHeartRadio app,
coming up next to his Junior and Sports Talk. Right
after this, You're listening
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Morning show
It is time now for today's Strawberry Letter, and if
you need advice on relationships, work, sex, parenting, and more,
please submit your Strawberry Letter to STEVEHARBFM dot com and
click submit Strawberry Letter. We could be reading your letter
live on the air, just like we're going to read
this one right here, right now, and you never know,
it could be yours. It could be yours.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Buckle up and hold on tight. We got it for you.
Here it is Strawberry Letter.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Thank you. A few subjects. It's between me and the mouse. Okay,
Dear Stephen Shirley, I'm married and I think we have
a rodent problem in our house because of my husband's friend.
Let me be clear. We don't have a filthy house,
and we don't eat anywhere but in our kitchen and
occasionally in our living room. My husband got out of
(00:46):
the military a few years ago and we chose to
settle down in a metropolitan area. When our friends come to town,
they always want to stay with us. So when my
husband's friend got out of the military, he has to
stay with us for a while while he looked for
a house in our area. Since he's been in our home,
there have been certain smells that I have never experienced before.
(01:09):
My husband said that his friend is into holistic healing
and all different kinds of body oils. I told his friend,
we believe in the Lord and we go to the
hospital if something is wrong with us. We got into
a big argument over his holistic healing theories. And besides
the stench coming from our guest room, I saw something
tiny and black running really fast out of the room.
(01:32):
I told my husband that it might be a mouse
and it probably came from his friend's luggage. My husband
said that I am taking things too far because I
don't like his friend. That same night, we were in
the shower together with the walls all steamed up, and
I saw a small black speck on the floor. I
yelled that it was a mouse. My husband has perfect
(01:53):
vision and I wear glasses, so if I saw it,
I know he saw it. Whatever it was, it quickly
ran away. That oily man has brought rodents into our house,
and my husband allowed this man and his mouse to
stay here as long as he needs to. Why is
my husband insisting on making me miserable? What do I do? Well? Geez,
(02:18):
I never tell anyone to leave their house but they're
extenuating circumstances all the time. But this is not good,
and I'm really with you. It's the man or the
mouse or me. I mean, this is your house too,
and I gotta ask you what is wrong with your husband?
Why is he so insistent upon letting this man stay
(02:39):
in your house? And why is he making excuses for
his stinky oils and stuff. There's such a thing as
wearing out ones welcome, and I think his friend is
way overdue. The friend and and the mouse need to
get out. I say, call the exterminator right now. Have
them come to your house and exterminate. Do what they do.
(03:00):
Either the little rodent nor the friend can continue to
have free reign in your house. This is craziness. Let
your husband know his friend's time is up, so you
guys can get back to living your own lives.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Steve, Well, I see another problem here. You know everything
you say is fine, sheerly, but you know you married
now and you say you got a roading problem, okay,
and you say it's because of your husband's friend. Now,
how is that so? Now? Then she tried to Now
(03:33):
here's the Let me be clear, we don't have a
filthy house, and we don't eat anywhere but in our
kitchen and occasionally in our living room. That ain't got
nothing to do with this mouse. Now, I just want
to point that out. Now, you might be blaming the
wrong person. I don't doubt that you got a mouse
(03:54):
in the house, but that ain't got nothing to do
with your house being filthy. It would add to it,
of course, but you can get a roading up in there.
I mean, how do they get in your house? Anyway?
Through a crack of crevices under the doorway. It could
be anyway they get in they come in outside do
you depend on where you live. It could be a
(04:16):
you know, a few mouths, or it could be a
mouse from a neighbor's house. You know, they got legs.
They travel anyway. Your husband got out the military chose
to settle down in the metropolitan area, which is known
to have mice and rats. Just want to point that out.
Metropolitan area. You know that it's called the city, y'all.
(04:39):
I don't know if you ever heard of this place
called New.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
York or Paris.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Get out there early in the morning and walk to
work and see what you see. When your friends come to town,
they always want to stay with us. So my husband
friend got out the military, came down there and stay
with y'all. He got all types of smells I've never
experienced before, and he said, because your husband friend is
in the holistic healing and all different kinds of body
(05:05):
of alls. I told his friend, we believe in the
Lord and we go to the hospital when some I'm wrong.
See it right there, that's that old closed mind thinking
there is nothing wrong with holistic healing. There is a
place for when you got to go to the hospital.
I'll give you example. If you fall and break your arm,
(05:26):
you got to carryo ass to the hospital. You I
don't know what you fin to put some vinegar around
your arm with a garlic cloth on it and gingerbread
are packed on it with wrapped in a cabbage leaf.
Your arms still gonna be broken. There is a time
to go to the hospital. But there's a lot of
holistic stuff that you can do that's very very helpful
(05:49):
for you. Nature is healing. But you old school, so
gay ass on down to the hospital. Now. Remember when
you get to the hospital, y'all, remember the one thing
they are not into cures at the hospital. They are
into treatments. There's a difference. They are into treatments, not cures.
(06:11):
They make money off to you. If the hospital cured everybody,
if doctors cured everybody, there would be no more income.
But they will treat you though, they'll give you a peal.
That's just a personal note. Now, when I come back,
I'm gonna tell you where I think the damn rat
came from.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
All right, we'll have part two of Steve's response coming
up at twenty three minutes after the hour of The
subject for today is It's.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Between Me and the mouse. And I want to thank
my friend Carla for sending me a meme of a
mouse yesterday. You're well, you know you did it. You
know you did it back right after this, you're listening
morning show. All right, Steve, let's recap today's Strawberry letter.
The subjects is it's between me and the mouse.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Well, we got this lady that's got a husband that's
in the military, and they have people staying at their
house from time to time, and the husband's friend is
staying over from military and he's in the holistic healing
and he got a lot of owls and body stuff
and smells. That's coming from the room that he's staying at.
But the problem is not that they are. They got
into a bigger argument about his holistic stuff, and she
(07:27):
told him we know the Lord and we go to
the hospital when something wrong. Okay, well, okay, that's an
argument that can be had. I understand both sides. Problem is,
you saw a mouse, a little black thing that ran
real fast from his room. All right, Now, smells can
(07:49):
attract rodents, Smells attract flies. The flies is coming odors
at insects and rodents. That could be where the road
it came from. I doubt, very seriously if anybody's traveling
with a with a mouse in their pocket, or I
(08:12):
doubt if anybody's got a mouse in their luggage in
their pocket. Yeah, I just think the rat came in
the house. Now, it could have came in there because
of the smells, the sudden, weird smells. That's why he
could have come into your house. You don't know, but
you're blaming this man, and now you want the man
to go. Your husband say, you're overreacted. What got y'all
(08:35):
was you was in the shower with your husband handling
your business. You saw something black on the floor run
real fast. You say you need glasses, and your husband
got perfect vision, so you know he saw it. He
probably did. But I'm gonna tell you we as men,
when we see something wrong at the house, we be quiet.
(08:59):
We gonna run that flag up. We don't go, oh wow,
there here's a mouse in here drags. We just handle
it because it ain't no need of making this no
bigger than it is. He could have seen the mouse.
But what I don't understand is why why are we
still writing about the damn mouse? Though?
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Because it's a mouse in the house.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
What you get rid of that mouse so fast? Let
me give you my experience.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Upset about this, I'm not.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
I promise you in three days you won't see no
trace of mouse. First of all, they have this item
out called dcon Open it up, you tag the package.
It has an aroma that attracts rotors. They eat the road,
they eat it. The stuff in the decon makes the
mouse thirsty. It creates a thirst. Then they go to
(09:56):
wherever they water source is licking water off for condensation, piper,
a leak or something, and they go get some water.
Once they get the water, the water blows them up
and they die. Okay, So now they have old fashioned
stuff like mouse traps. Put a piece of meat and
cheese on it, Pam, shut him down, crack him in half.
(10:17):
Now you got to do discussed picking him up. My
favorite is the mouse trap, the glue trap. I like
it when they get stuck on it and they be hollering.
Then their friends come out to see what's wrong. When
they try to help, they just ass is stuck on
the two. I love him glue traps. There's so many
ways to get rid of that. You could buy a cat,
I trust me, in two days, the damn mouse is gone.
(10:40):
Cats don't miss the hats. Don't miss the mouse is
not the problem. The real problem is you don't like
the man. Y'all have a big ass argument and now
you want the man. Go now them alls that you
smelling that you see like, I knew this dude in
New York. He was a Musk oil salesman. And every
(11:01):
time I be walking down the street in New York
and Harlem, stay, what's up? A cool dude man? I
loved him and I would buy oils from him and everything.
But you're not really I'm not. I don't like them
alls on the street like that. That ain't you know?
I like? I like my smell coming from a counter
inside the departments. I don't want to smell like a
(11:26):
clothes you know, driftwood log, you know. I don't want
to smell like fern old mouse, because when you put
that on, you just smell like a whole last person.
It's like when you go over your grandmama's house and
walk in the house, and whole house smell like mouth balls.
(11:48):
But it ain't a moth in there there, and it
ain't none of they clothes got holes in it. I
don't know why I'm going with this. I just said, Hey,
if you want to get rid of the mouse, you
can get rid of the mouse. But where the mouse
ain't the problem? You don't like the man. The man
is over there and you don't like him, So how
long is he going to be there? He'd be there
till his friends, said the military friends. They probably got
(12:09):
shot together something or something more. I can read a
whole story. He saved my life. Yeah, make up a store,
all right, leave your comments on today to the bunker.
He pulled it in and threw it back out, saved
our life.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
He got to stay here on Instagram or face. He's
been here a long time. Instagram or Facebook.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
And Steve Harvey he had to save my life. I
wouldn't even be here.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Check out the Strawberry Letter podcast on the free iHeartRadio app,
coming up next to his Junior and Sports Talk. Right
after this, You're listening
Speaker 2 (12:49):
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