May 12, 2022 • 13 mins
Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m married to mister-fix-it-all, the friendly handyman that runs to help single women when something goes wrong in their home. I hope he can fix this marriage because I’m at the end of my rope with him. He runs a landscaping business and he has awesome employees that work for him and execute his vision..........................
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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 STEFRVEFM dot com and
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this one right here, right now. You never know it
could be yours. Bugle up and hold on tight. We
(00:22):
got it for you here. It is the Strawberry Letter.
Thank you, nephew. Subject next door and down the street,
Dear Stephen Shirley. I'm married to a mister fix it All,
the friendly handyman that runs to help single women when
something goes wrong in their home. I hope he can
fix his marriage because I'm at the end of my
rope with him. He runs a landscaping business, and he
(00:44):
has awesome employees that work for him and execute his vision.
That frees him up to do a lot of customer
service type work. And when he sees a customer with
a need, it's his duty to provide a service. That's
what he tells me every time he gets in a
sticky situation with a quote unquote customer. Last week, I
got home from the gym and he was nowhere to
(01:05):
be found. I heard hammering next door, so I went
upstairs to peek over into my neighbor's yard. Her husband
died last year, so she's maintaining the house and taking
care of her young child alone. I've cooked for her,
and I'll keep her daughter if she wants to run
some errands. She's a sweet person. My husband told her
anything she meets, we're here for her. So I guess
(01:27):
she needed help with her fence, and he had to
take his shirt off to nail a few boards together
for her. I watched him and her in the backyard
and the body language was very flirtatious. When he got home,
I asked how he got over there, and he said
she texted him. I didn't know they had each other's numbers,
but whatever it is, it's what he does to me
(01:50):
all the time. Just yesterday I saw his truck in
the neighborhoods skanks yard. And she's got to live in
boyfriend that's a flight attendant, so he's all ways gone.
Heaven knows what she needed. I'm sick of him being
openly disrespectful to me and our marriage. If he's a landscaper.
Why can't he just do that? Is he seeking praise
(02:11):
from the women or does he want more than that? Well,
it sounds like he wants whatever he can get, and
it sounds like he's either getting it already or he's
gonna get it taking a shirt off and all of that.
You said, he has awesome employees, so why doesn't he
just let them take care of his customers? Why doesn't he?
I mean, he's in no way obligated to take care
(02:33):
of all the single women in need. So what is
really going on with him? As a question, why does
the neighbor have his phone number? Why? Because he gave
it to her. That's what happened there. This is not
looking good for him in my eyes, and I'm sure
your eyes either. You gotta let him know what's up,
and not that you should have to, because he should
(02:56):
know better as a married man not to be doing that.
I mean, my question to you is have you said
anything to him about it? Because it sounds like you're
just sitting back and letting him do whatever he does,
whatever he wants to do. He might think you're okay
with it since you've been silent on silent, say something.
Let him know how you feel and that you don't
(03:17):
like it. Tell them to let those single women get
their own handyman and leave yours alone. Steve, you know,
it's really simple. Letters really like not she has no
proof of anything. She's just has some suspicions here, and
that's you know, it's hard for us to respond to
a letter with suspicions. But I do have a couple
(03:39):
of things of interest I found in this letter. Now
you're married to What she calls him is to fix
it all. A friendly handyman that runs to help single
women when something goes wrong in their home. See, married
people need handywork done too, But sometimes some me and
(04:00):
NA do it yourself as in some women are more
do it yourself as soul. But you seem to think
that the focus is on single women. I hope he
can fix this match because I'm at the end of
my rope with him now. He runs a landscaping business.
Now I know some people with landscaping business that's bushes, grass, trees,
(04:23):
lander escaping, that's what it is. He has awesome employees
that work for him and execute his vision. That frees
him up to do a lot of customer service type
of work. Maybe that's what he's interested in, is the
customer service type work. See you're using a lot of
(04:44):
keywords here, that's kind of telling the story. So he
didn't really want to be a landscaper. He really wanted
to be a customer servicer. So that's what he's doing, right,
And that's what he tells me every time he gets
into a sticky situa with a customer. Now, last week,
she came home for the gym and he was nowhere
(05:05):
to be found. You heard some hammering next door, so
you went upstairs with your nose itself and look over
in the neighbor's yard. And her husband died last year,
so she's maintaining the house and taking care of this
young child by herself. Right now, this woman says she
(05:27):
didn't cook for and keep her. She want to rust
the marriage. She's a really sweet person, so it really
ain't her. You got the problem with my husband told
her anything's and she needs we're here for her. So
I guess she needed help with her fence, and he
had to take his shirt off to nail a few
boards together for her. Right there, let's talk. I just
(05:51):
told you what landscaping was bushes grass and trees. He
over there hammering boards on a fence. Ain't got nothing
to do with landscaping. Now, landscapers do put over, but
he ain't over that making money. He over there helping out.
But he took his shirt off. I have seven questions.
(06:14):
How many boys was he hammling? And how hot was it?
I gotta take your damn shirt off. Now. I'm assuming
he's fit, because you going to the gym to make
sure you fit. Now you look out there, he got
sweat rolling down off his chocolate body, just hamming this
(06:36):
helpers fits. Hold that thought, Steve, hold it, Hold it
right there. We'll have part two of your response coming
up at twenty three minutes after the hour. Today's Strawberry Letters,
subject next door and down the street. We'll get back
into it right after this. You're listening Morning show, All right,
Come on, Steve, let's recap today's strawberry letter. The subject
(06:58):
is next door and down the street. Well, let's just
real soon. But this woman has suspicions about her husband,
who's in the landscaping business, and he has some really
great employees that carry out this vision. So he's more
into the customer service part of it. You all have
a next door neighbor who's a widower now because her
husband died a year a little year ago. She's a
sweet person, you say, and you all agreed to help
(07:21):
her out with anything she needed. You go to the gym,
you come home, you hear some hammering. You go upstairs.
You look over in the yard. He over that hammering
and some boards up against you. He's a landscaper, bushes grass, landscaper.
But now he over that. Nah he now he just
(07:41):
you know, now he do fist work. Yeah, he's a
shirtless landscape but na, you look over that. He hammering
some boards and he ain't got his shirt on. My
question before we left was how many boards was he hammering?
And how hot was it? And then you looked at
the yard and the body language was very flirtatious between them.
(08:03):
When he got home, I asked him how he got
over there, and this food said, She text me what,
I don't know. I don't I didn't even know they
had each other's number. You wouldn't have known that had
dummy told you this, what should he said? Steve? Well,
(08:24):
I came home and I saw her trying to put
them boards up, and she Holly, because you heard her
finger and I said, hold on, let me help, y'all,
and you know that, you know, you know then you
could say it. You can heave it out. You know
when she smashed her finger, you know, at least I
went over the sucking her thumb for I just went
on star had any boards? Oh? Because you know, well, yeah,
(08:49):
you know, you know when you smash your finger for
a thing you wanna do and put it in your mouth.
So lest I ain't go that far trying to help,
you know what I'm saying. And then next thing, you know,
yesterday you saw his truck down the neighborhood skanks y'all.
She gotta live in boardfend a flight attendant. He ain't
never home. Heaven knows where she needed. I'm thinking of
him being openly different, respectful to me in our marriage,
(09:09):
and he's a landscaper. Why can't he just do that?
Is she's seeking praise for the women or does he
want more that? The question is, is he's seeking praise? Well,
let me just say this right here. He don't do
pranks on the Steve harm more than show. That's the
most person. He's not new Tommy. So he can't possibly
doing that. But what I will show you is his
(09:29):
focus on customers. Shirley and Carl Up. I am going
to do a live of reenactment. I'm gonna show you
how he gets all these extra jobs. I want you
all to call and just ask him anything. I don't
care what it is. It could be about the weather,
it could be about school or anything. And this is
(09:50):
how he's selling his landscaping company, which is why he's
always at least single women's hut. Just ask me any question, please,
any question anything? Okay, listen, are you are you gonna?
I need someone to drive the kids to school for
me tomorrow? Can you do that? Please? Oh? You know, driving,
it's what I do. Yeah, you know, a matter of facts.
(10:15):
As a matter of fact, you know, one of my
favorite places to go is to drive. You know what
I'm saying Now, I could drive them for you, but
you know, yeah, that's all I need. That's all I need.
Next question, I have a question about lightbulbs. Led light bulbs,
(10:40):
can you help me. It's hard for me to make
a decision as to what kind. Oh I see what's happening?
You want a light bulb? But Led led simply spells led.
So I'm being led into your arms to put this
bub I see what you're trying to do, but you'll
chock itself. I see exactly what you trying. You know
(11:05):
what I'm saying. I'm I'm being lead right on up
into this situation with you talking about something led light bulb. Yeah.
Next question, you know, I like, Um, my husband isn't here,
and I like basketball, and but my TV is not
working properly? Um, is there anything you can do to
(11:26):
help me fix my TV? Because I do like to
watch basketball? Oh yeah, yeah. You probably like yeah because
you like to hear that ball pounding on that hard
wood and there's no sweeter sound in the world and dribble.
You know what I'm saying, that ball pounding on that hardwood.
You know, as a matter of fact, I can come
down that fix anything, because I'm wanted the top hardwood
(11:48):
pounders to ever get in the landscaping business. How are
you still married? Yeah? Next question, my car is dirty
and I need to take my car. I don't know
if I'm gonna take it to the car wash or
wash it in the driveway. What you really need is
to get waxed to see you all have been hit
(12:13):
top of myself. Was really needed to give way. That's
what I do. That's the type of customers. Do you
know what I mean? Next question? Okay, I was I
was coming down the stairs the other day and I
had my heels on and uh I slipped and almost fell.
I don't know if it was me or one of
(12:34):
the boards were loose on the stairs. You said you
was coming down the steps. If I'd have been down
there and caught you, it would have been on and cracking.
You know what I'm saying. You ain't got to worry
about the flow balls. You know, I catch molding the
cold Yes, Las question cho Yeah yeah. I Post your
(13:04):
comments on Today's Strawberry Letter at Steve Harvey FM on
Instagram and Facebook, and check out the Strawberry Letter podcast
on demand now coming up at forty six minutes after
the hour, Junior will be here with Sports Talk right
after this. You're listening to the Stave Harvey Morning Show.
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 STEFRVEFM 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. You never know it
could be yours. Bugle up and hold on tight. We
(00:22):
got it for you here. It is the Strawberry Letter.
Thank you, nephew. Subject next door and down the street,
Dear Stephen Shirley. I'm married to a mister fix it All,
the friendly handyman that runs to help single women when
something goes wrong in their home. I hope he can
fix his marriage because I'm at the end of my
rope with him. He runs a landscaping business, and he
(00:44):
has awesome employees that work for him and execute his vision.
That frees him up to do a lot of customer
service type work. And when he sees a customer with
a need, it's his duty to provide a service. That's
what he tells me every time he gets in a
sticky situation with a quote unquote customer. Last week, I
got home from the gym and he was nowhere to
(01:05):
be found. I heard hammering next door, so I went
upstairs to peek over into my neighbor's yard. Her husband
died last year, so she's maintaining the house and taking
care of her young child alone. I've cooked for her,
and I'll keep her daughter if she wants to run
some errands. She's a sweet person. My husband told her
anything she meets, we're here for her. So I guess
(01:27):
she needed help with her fence, and he had to
take his shirt off to nail a few boards together
for her. I watched him and her in the backyard
and the body language was very flirtatious. When he got home,
I asked how he got over there, and he said
she texted him. I didn't know they had each other's numbers,
but whatever it is, it's what he does to me
(01:50):
all the time. Just yesterday I saw his truck in
the neighborhoods skanks yard. And she's got to live in
boyfriend that's a flight attendant, so he's all ways gone.
Heaven knows what she needed. I'm sick of him being
openly disrespectful to me and our marriage. If he's a landscaper.
Why can't he just do that? Is he seeking praise
(02:11):
from the women or does he want more than that? Well,
it sounds like he wants whatever he can get, and
it sounds like he's either getting it already or he's
gonna get it taking a shirt off and all of that.
You said, he has awesome employees, so why doesn't he
just let them take care of his customers? Why doesn't he?
I mean, he's in no way obligated to take care
(02:33):
of all the single women in need. So what is
really going on with him? As a question, why does
the neighbor have his phone number? Why? Because he gave
it to her. That's what happened there. This is not
looking good for him in my eyes, and I'm sure
your eyes either. You gotta let him know what's up,
and not that you should have to, because he should
(02:56):
know better as a married man not to be doing that.
I mean, my question to you is have you said
anything to him about it? Because it sounds like you're
just sitting back and letting him do whatever he does,
whatever he wants to do. He might think you're okay
with it since you've been silent on silent, say something.
Let him know how you feel and that you don't
(03:17):
like it. Tell them to let those single women get
their own handyman and leave yours alone. Steve, you know,
it's really simple. Letters really like not she has no
proof of anything. She's just has some suspicions here, and
that's you know, it's hard for us to respond to
a letter with suspicions. But I do have a couple
(03:39):
of things of interest I found in this letter. Now
you're married to What she calls him is to fix
it all. A friendly handyman that runs to help single
women when something goes wrong in their home. See, married
people need handywork done too, But sometimes some me and
(04:00):
NA do it yourself as in some women are more
do it yourself as soul. But you seem to think
that the focus is on single women. I hope he
can fix this match because I'm at the end of
my rope with him now. He runs a landscaping business.
Now I know some people with landscaping business that's bushes, grass, trees,
(04:23):
lander escaping, that's what it is. He has awesome employees
that work for him and execute his vision. That frees
him up to do a lot of customer service type
of work. Maybe that's what he's interested in, is the
customer service type work. See you're using a lot of
(04:44):
keywords here, that's kind of telling the story. So he
didn't really want to be a landscaper. He really wanted
to be a customer servicer. So that's what he's doing, right,
And that's what he tells me every time he gets
into a sticky situa with a customer. Now, last week,
she came home for the gym and he was nowhere
(05:05):
to be found. You heard some hammering next door, so
you went upstairs with your nose itself and look over
in the neighbor's yard. And her husband died last year,
so she's maintaining the house and taking care of this
young child by herself. Right now, this woman says she
(05:27):
didn't cook for and keep her. She want to rust
the marriage. She's a really sweet person, so it really
ain't her. You got the problem with my husband told
her anything's and she needs we're here for her. So
I guess she needed help with her fence, and he
had to take his shirt off to nail a few
boards together for her. Right there, let's talk. I just
(05:51):
told you what landscaping was bushes grass and trees. He
over there hammering boards on a fence. Ain't got nothing
to do with landscaping. Now, landscapers do put over, but
he ain't over that making money. He over there helping out.
But he took his shirt off. I have seven questions.
(06:14):
How many boys was he hammling? And how hot was it?
I gotta take your damn shirt off. Now. I'm assuming
he's fit, because you going to the gym to make
sure you fit. Now you look out there, he got
sweat rolling down off his chocolate body, just hamming this
(06:36):
helpers fits. Hold that thought, Steve, hold it, Hold it
right there. We'll have part two of your response coming
up at twenty three minutes after the hour. Today's Strawberry Letters,
subject next door and down the street. We'll get back
into it right after this. You're listening Morning show, All right,
Come on, Steve, let's recap today's strawberry letter. The subject
(06:58):
is next door and down the street. Well, let's just
real soon. But this woman has suspicions about her husband,
who's in the landscaping business, and he has some really
great employees that carry out this vision. So he's more
into the customer service part of it. You all have
a next door neighbor who's a widower now because her
husband died a year a little year ago. She's a
sweet person, you say, and you all agreed to help
(07:21):
her out with anything she needed. You go to the gym,
you come home, you hear some hammering. You go upstairs.
You look over in the yard. He over that hammering
and some boards up against you. He's a landscaper, bushes grass, landscaper.
But now he over that. Nah he now he just
(07:41):
you know, now he do fist work. Yeah, he's a
shirtless landscape but na, you look over that. He hammering
some boards and he ain't got his shirt on. My
question before we left was how many boards was he hammering?
And how hot was it? And then you looked at
the yard and the body language was very flirtatious between them.
(08:03):
When he got home, I asked him how he got
over there, and this food said, She text me what,
I don't know. I don't I didn't even know they
had each other's number. You wouldn't have known that had
dummy told you this, what should he said? Steve? Well,
(08:24):
I came home and I saw her trying to put
them boards up, and she Holly, because you heard her
finger and I said, hold on, let me help, y'all,
and you know that, you know, you know then you
could say it. You can heave it out. You know
when she smashed her finger, you know, at least I
went over the sucking her thumb for I just went
on star had any boards? Oh? Because you know, well, yeah,
(08:49):
you know, you know when you smash your finger for
a thing you wanna do and put it in your mouth.
So lest I ain't go that far trying to help,
you know what I'm saying. And then next thing, you know,
yesterday you saw his truck down the neighborhood skanks y'all.
She gotta live in boardfend a flight attendant. He ain't
never home. Heaven knows where she needed. I'm thinking of
him being openly different, respectful to me in our marriage,
(09:09):
and he's a landscaper. Why can't he just do that?
Is she's seeking praise for the women or does he
want more that? The question is, is he's seeking praise? Well,
let me just say this right here. He don't do
pranks on the Steve harm more than show. That's the
most person. He's not new Tommy. So he can't possibly
doing that. But what I will show you is his
(09:29):
focus on customers. Shirley and Carl Up. I am going
to do a live of reenactment. I'm gonna show you
how he gets all these extra jobs. I want you
all to call and just ask him anything. I don't
care what it is. It could be about the weather,
it could be about school or anything. And this is
(09:50):
how he's selling his landscaping company, which is why he's
always at least single women's hut. Just ask me any question, please,
any question anything? Okay, listen, are you are you gonna?
I need someone to drive the kids to school for
me tomorrow? Can you do that? Please? Oh? You know, driving,
it's what I do. Yeah, you know, a matter of facts.
(10:15):
As a matter of fact, you know, one of my
favorite places to go is to drive. You know what
I'm saying Now, I could drive them for you, but
you know, yeah, that's all I need. That's all I need.
Next question, I have a question about lightbulbs. Led light bulbs,
(10:40):
can you help me. It's hard for me to make
a decision as to what kind. Oh I see what's happening?
You want a light bulb? But Led led simply spells led.
So I'm being led into your arms to put this
bub I see what you're trying to do, but you'll
chock itself. I see exactly what you trying. You know
(11:05):
what I'm saying. I'm I'm being lead right on up
into this situation with you talking about something led light bulb. Yeah.
Next question, you know, I like, Um, my husband isn't here,
and I like basketball, and but my TV is not
working properly? Um, is there anything you can do to
(11:26):
help me fix my TV? Because I do like to
watch basketball? Oh yeah, yeah. You probably like yeah because
you like to hear that ball pounding on that hard
wood and there's no sweeter sound in the world and dribble.
You know what I'm saying, that ball pounding on that hardwood.
You know, as a matter of fact, I can come
down that fix anything, because I'm wanted the top hardwood
(11:48):
pounders to ever get in the landscaping business. How are
you still married? Yeah? Next question, my car is dirty
and I need to take my car. I don't know
if I'm gonna take it to the car wash or
wash it in the driveway. What you really need is
to get waxed to see you all have been hit
(12:13):
top of myself. Was really needed to give way. That's
what I do. That's the type of customers. Do you
know what I mean? Next question? Okay, I was I
was coming down the stairs the other day and I
had my heels on and uh I slipped and almost fell.
I don't know if it was me or one of
(12:34):
the boards were loose on the stairs. You said you
was coming down the steps. If I'd have been down
there and caught you, it would have been on and cracking.
You know what I'm saying. You ain't got to worry
about the flow balls. You know, I catch molding the
cold Yes, Las question cho Yeah yeah. I Post your
(13:04):
comments on Today's Strawberry Letter at Steve Harvey FM on
Instagram and Facebook, and check out the Strawberry Letter podcast
on demand now coming up at forty six minutes after
the hour, Junior will be here with Sports Talk right
after this. You're listening to the Stave Harvey Morning Show.
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