1 00:00:01,440 --> 00:00:03,960 Speaker 1: Time now for today's Strawberry Letter, and if you need 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:08,160 Speaker 1: advice on relationships, dating, work, sex, parenting, and more. Please 3 00:00:08,200 --> 00:00:11,280 Speaker 1: submit your Strawberry Letter to Steve HARVEYFM dot com and 4 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:14,440 Speaker 1: click submit Strawberry Letter. We could be reading your letter 5 00:00:14,520 --> 00:00:17,239 Speaker 1: live on the air, just like we're gonna read this 6 00:00:17,239 --> 00:00:20,279 Speaker 1: one right here, Pop pop right now. You never know. 7 00:00:20,360 --> 00:00:23,560 Speaker 1: It could be yours. You never know. Buckle love and 8 00:00:23,640 --> 00:00:25,240 Speaker 1: hold on type We got it for you. Here it 9 00:00:25,360 --> 00:00:30,200 Speaker 1: is Strawberry Letter. Thank you, nephew. Subject the Crazy Cookie Lady. 10 00:00:30,320 --> 00:00:33,000 Speaker 1: Dear Stephen Shirley. I am a twenty nine year old 11 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:35,400 Speaker 1: single woman, and my mom had me when she was 12 00:00:35,440 --> 00:00:39,360 Speaker 1: forty two, so she's considerably older than my friend's parents. 13 00:00:39,760 --> 00:00:42,599 Speaker 1: I've always been around older women, and I heard a 14 00:00:42,640 --> 00:00:46,319 Speaker 1: lot of conversations that I shouldn't have heard before I 15 00:00:46,440 --> 00:00:49,040 Speaker 1: was of age. My mother and her friends were all 16 00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:52,800 Speaker 1: single moms, and they've always been crazy about men. When 17 00:00:52,800 --> 00:00:56,040 Speaker 1: I grew up, I was boy crazy. Now I'm older 18 00:00:56,080 --> 00:00:59,240 Speaker 1: and still single, I can see how crazy my childhood 19 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:02,880 Speaker 1: and teenage year's worth. My mother had different men for 20 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:06,880 Speaker 1: different occasions, and they all showered her with gifts and money. 21 00:01:07,440 --> 00:01:09,560 Speaker 1: I thought it was what men were supposed to do, 22 00:01:09,920 --> 00:01:12,440 Speaker 1: so I grew up looking for this type of arrangement. 23 00:01:13,480 --> 00:01:17,319 Speaker 1: An older gem date me, and he told me upfront 24 00:01:17,360 --> 00:01:19,200 Speaker 1: that I had to give up the honey to get 25 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:22,120 Speaker 1: the money. I stayed away from dirty old men and 26 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:25,720 Speaker 1: I joined a church and started going to Bible study regularly. 27 00:01:26,120 --> 00:01:29,679 Speaker 1: I met a nice man at this church, and I 28 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:32,600 Speaker 1: thought he was the one. We weren't in a hurry 29 00:01:32,640 --> 00:01:35,120 Speaker 1: to have sex, and he took me. He took his 30 00:01:35,240 --> 00:01:38,480 Speaker 1: time getting to know me. It was four months into 31 00:01:38,520 --> 00:01:41,560 Speaker 1: our relationship when we decided to meet each other's parents. 32 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:43,960 Speaker 1: He brought his dad to church and I took my 33 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:46,800 Speaker 1: mom to church. My mother saw his dad from a 34 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:50,280 Speaker 1: distance and didn't want to meet him. His dad called 35 00:01:50,320 --> 00:01:54,040 Speaker 1: my mom's name and she hurried away. I asked how 36 00:01:54,080 --> 00:01:57,080 Speaker 1: he knew her name, and he said, that's crazy cookie lady. 37 00:01:58,080 --> 00:02:00,600 Speaker 1: He said that's what the guys call her now because 38 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:03,160 Speaker 1: she still thinks she's got it and she's still trying 39 00:02:03,160 --> 00:02:06,040 Speaker 1: to pass it out. I told him that my mom. 40 00:02:06,880 --> 00:02:09,720 Speaker 1: I told him that was my mom, and he apologized 41 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:12,919 Speaker 1: but was still laughing. I broke up with the guy 42 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:17,280 Speaker 1: because of his dad. Uncle Stephen and Shirley is They're 43 00:02:17,320 --> 00:02:20,040 Speaker 1: a way to get my old and not so sexy 44 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:26,440 Speaker 1: mother to chill out. I just gotta ask you, what 45 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:28,560 Speaker 1: do you think you're gonna tell your mom at this 46 00:02:28,680 --> 00:02:30,800 Speaker 1: late date? I mean, what do you think you can 47 00:02:30,840 --> 00:02:32,800 Speaker 1: tell her? If you think you can tell her something, 48 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:36,440 Speaker 1: go ahead, but I doubt it. You're twenty nine, you know. 49 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:39,360 Speaker 1: I don't think this is gonna work. You're older now, 50 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:42,880 Speaker 1: but still your mom is who she is. This has 51 00:02:42,919 --> 00:02:45,720 Speaker 1: been going on since you were a little girl, so 52 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:49,600 Speaker 1: much so that you took your life in an entirely 53 00:02:49,680 --> 00:02:52,680 Speaker 1: different direction. That's how much you didn't want to be 54 00:02:52,919 --> 00:02:56,400 Speaker 1: like your mom. But my advice to you is to 55 00:02:56,440 --> 00:02:59,760 Speaker 1: live your life because your mom is doing mom. Okay, 56 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:02,440 Speaker 1: you might be embarrassed by your mom, but you are 57 00:03:02,560 --> 00:03:07,720 Speaker 1: not responsible for her crazy cookie lady behavior. You've also 58 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:12,080 Speaker 1: you're also not obligated to tolerate her boyfriend's dad disrespect 59 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:14,800 Speaker 1: of your mom. And although it wasn't his fault, you 60 00:03:14,919 --> 00:03:17,440 Speaker 1: did break up with your man behind it. I don't 61 00:03:17,440 --> 00:03:19,800 Speaker 1: think you should have done that necessarily. He sounded like 62 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:21,920 Speaker 1: a decent guy. I mean, he should have checked his 63 00:03:22,040 --> 00:03:24,640 Speaker 1: dad or else he wouldn't have had wanted you to 64 00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:27,399 Speaker 1: meet his parents in the first place. But all your 65 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:30,360 Speaker 1: concern with is your mom at this point, and I 66 00:03:30,360 --> 00:03:33,400 Speaker 1: mean that's a good concern, but there's nothing you can 67 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:37,440 Speaker 1: do about mama. Mama's grown and living her life. You 68 00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:39,960 Speaker 1: need to get your man back and live yours just 69 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:44,040 Speaker 1: like your mom is doing. Steve. You know, I don't 70 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:50,240 Speaker 1: really want to all do this letter. I really don't. 71 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:54,160 Speaker 1: I'm I'm protesting this letter. And why is that? Girl? 72 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:57,120 Speaker 1: Why don't you want to do? You know what? What 73 00:03:57,360 --> 00:04:00,600 Speaker 1: can we say exactly? You know what? I mean? You 74 00:04:00,720 --> 00:04:04,520 Speaker 1: tried to say something, but try You know your mama 75 00:04:04,640 --> 00:04:12,040 Speaker 1: seventy one, ye seventy one? What she can't even meet 76 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:17,120 Speaker 1: nobody at church, causing her reputation crazy cookie lady, So 77 00:04:17,240 --> 00:04:22,080 Speaker 1: now you can't take your mama know where. I don't 78 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:29,240 Speaker 1: even want to go through the letter. I'm protesting this letter. Yeah, 79 00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:31,520 Speaker 1: you know, so I'm doing something I've never done before. 80 00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:35,920 Speaker 1: I'm protesting this strawberry letter. But I mean, but you 81 00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:38,560 Speaker 1: can ask me questions about it, Sherley or call or 82 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:40,760 Speaker 1: anybody else. Y'all can ask me questions about it. But 83 00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:43,440 Speaker 1: I don't have anything for this now. I'm in protest. 84 00:04:43,480 --> 00:04:46,800 Speaker 1: Go ahead, but do you think the daughter. I don't 85 00:04:46,839 --> 00:04:49,520 Speaker 1: think she's responsible and she shouldn't feel that way. But 86 00:04:49,560 --> 00:04:53,360 Speaker 1: do you think she is feeling responsible for her mom's behavior. Well, 87 00:04:53,480 --> 00:04:57,480 Speaker 1: she's embarrassed by her mother, embarrassed. She then broke up 88 00:04:57,480 --> 00:05:00,960 Speaker 1: with this young guy because of the young guy's addy's comments. 89 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:04,560 Speaker 1: Like you said in your response, that don't make no 90 00:05:04,680 --> 00:05:08,680 Speaker 1: sense because the guy did nothing wrong. Yeah, I don't 91 00:05:08,720 --> 00:05:11,600 Speaker 1: think y'all should up with him going along and then 92 00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:14,159 Speaker 1: you're gonna break up with him because her daddy, his 93 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:23,560 Speaker 1: daddy recognize your mama, Your mama seventy one, still passing 94 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:28,279 Speaker 1: it out now? You crow her the coat, the old 95 00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:33,159 Speaker 1: the crazy cookie lady. But what is she passing out? Nick? 96 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:41,560 Speaker 1: Right now? It's probably just crumb or maybe a cookie dope. 97 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:46,040 Speaker 1: It might even be cooking batter at this point, I 98 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:51,240 Speaker 1: don't know. I haven't been there. I'm headed now. I'm 99 00:05:51,279 --> 00:05:54,960 Speaker 1: hoping it remains the same. It looks like it probably will. 100 00:05:56,200 --> 00:06:01,839 Speaker 1: But when you didn't use so much of it? But 101 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:06,760 Speaker 1: how about when when she saw her daughter's boyfriend's dad, 102 00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:10,200 Speaker 1: she went the other way, So she knows her mom, 103 00:06:10,279 --> 00:06:12,599 Speaker 1: she knows something is up. I mean, you know, she 104 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:14,560 Speaker 1: didn't even want to meet the dad. You know what 105 00:06:14,600 --> 00:06:16,680 Speaker 1: I'm saying. She didn't even want to meet him. She 106 00:06:16,760 --> 00:06:21,400 Speaker 1: wanted to be out of this show, so said, hey, 107 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:26,719 Speaker 1: they're going old crazy Cookie Lady. Oh jeez. She had 108 00:06:26,760 --> 00:06:29,760 Speaker 1: to tell him whold up? Now that's my mama. Yeah, 109 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:32,680 Speaker 1: she defended her mom as she should have. Yeah, I'm 110 00:06:32,720 --> 00:06:37,120 Speaker 1: so sorry. I'm not mad, as she should have defended 111 00:06:37,160 --> 00:06:41,240 Speaker 1: her mom for sure. Yeah yeah, all right. Well, we'll 112 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:43,200 Speaker 1: come back and try to make something out of this 113 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:46,640 Speaker 1: letter if we can. Uh. At twenty three minutes after 114 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:49,720 Speaker 1: the hour, the subject of today's Strawberry Letter the crazy 115 00:06:49,800 --> 00:06:52,960 Speaker 1: Cookie Lady. We'll get back into it right after this. 116 00:06:53,360 --> 00:06:58,359 Speaker 1: You're listening, all right, Come on, Steve, let's try to 117 00:06:58,400 --> 00:07:00,640 Speaker 1: make some sense out of the Strawberry her today. The 118 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:05,440 Speaker 1: subject is the crazy Cookie Lady. All right, So, since 119 00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:07,840 Speaker 1: we can't make any sense about this this woman, this 120 00:07:08,040 --> 00:07:11,400 Speaker 1: mother had her late in life at forty two. The 121 00:07:11,480 --> 00:07:14,120 Speaker 1: girl is currently twenty nine years old writing this letter. 122 00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:17,160 Speaker 1: So she's writing a letter about her mother who's seventy one. 123 00:07:17,840 --> 00:07:22,480 Speaker 1: Now they've met. She had problems with guys her whole 124 00:07:22,480 --> 00:07:24,880 Speaker 1: life because her mama been dating me, and that's been 125 00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:27,840 Speaker 1: gifting her stuff her whole life, and so she thought 126 00:07:27,840 --> 00:07:31,320 Speaker 1: that's how I would go. And so she started dating 127 00:07:31,360 --> 00:07:35,520 Speaker 1: an older man and the man told her, I don't 128 00:07:35,560 --> 00:07:39,040 Speaker 1: give you no money without no honey. So she decided 129 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:41,400 Speaker 1: that's not the life. She won't. She turned her life around. 130 00:07:41,440 --> 00:07:44,080 Speaker 1: She started going to church. She met this wonderful man 131 00:07:45,160 --> 00:07:47,560 Speaker 1: who seemed to be everything. It's been going really well, 132 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:51,160 Speaker 1: and it's going so good for so long that her 133 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:54,640 Speaker 1: and the guy she's met and dating been taking her time, 134 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:57,160 Speaker 1: ain't forcing her, ain't pressing her for sex, and none 135 00:07:57,280 --> 00:07:59,840 Speaker 1: is going just right. They decided that they parted. She 136 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:04,120 Speaker 1: me so he bought his father to church, and she 137 00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:07,320 Speaker 1: bought her mother to church. At the end, they were 138 00:08:07,320 --> 00:08:10,600 Speaker 1: about to introduce him, the guy blurts out, now that 139 00:08:10,760 --> 00:08:12,680 Speaker 1: her mama sees the man and try to turn the 140 00:08:12,720 --> 00:08:16,760 Speaker 1: other way. The man blurts out, hey, that's crazy cookie lady. 141 00:08:17,160 --> 00:08:20,560 Speaker 1: Hey my mama. No, the whole of first, he said, 142 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:23,680 Speaker 1: we recall a cooking lady because she still she thinks 143 00:08:23,720 --> 00:08:25,840 Speaker 1: she still got it and still trying to pass it 144 00:08:25,840 --> 00:08:28,760 Speaker 1: out like a trade. You know what I'm saying, Hey, 145 00:08:28,840 --> 00:08:35,160 Speaker 1: that's my mama. But he's still laughing though. Right, Yeah, 146 00:08:35,360 --> 00:08:41,960 Speaker 1: So here we go. This is a reenactment. Tommy's gonna 147 00:08:41,960 --> 00:08:48,160 Speaker 1: be the crazy cookie lady in denial. I'm gonna be 148 00:08:48,640 --> 00:08:51,280 Speaker 1: one of the guys or several of the guys that 149 00:08:51,440 --> 00:08:53,480 Speaker 1: sea hull, but she always in de Now, all right, 150 00:08:53,559 --> 00:09:00,000 Speaker 1: here we go, look at hill. Cec what's up? Hey, baby? 151 00:09:00,040 --> 00:09:04,080 Speaker 1: You where I know you from? Somewhere? Cee Cee? Come 152 00:09:04,120 --> 00:09:09,120 Speaker 1: on now, come on, oh, hold on that, hold on, 153 00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:15,559 Speaker 1: you don't Oh, oh, you don't remember. I don't really 154 00:09:15,679 --> 00:09:20,280 Speaker 1: remember you, baby. What is your name? You wasn't worried 155 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:31,079 Speaker 1: about my name back then? Either? Well, remind me of 156 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:33,880 Speaker 1: your name. I don't I just don't remember. But remind 157 00:09:33,920 --> 00:09:43,560 Speaker 1: me who you are name Curtis. Oh you don't remember that, Curtis. 158 00:09:44,400 --> 00:09:46,600 Speaker 1: Remember that time you? Remember that time before I came 159 00:09:46,640 --> 00:09:48,400 Speaker 1: over head to stop it, to store it and buy 160 00:09:48,440 --> 00:09:53,520 Speaker 1: you for them or penny holes in the eggs? Remember 161 00:09:53,640 --> 00:09:59,960 Speaker 1: me head to buy four Curtiss. Curtis, I bought you 162 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:04,960 Speaker 1: four eggs over to the house, panting holes in the 163 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:12,520 Speaker 1: two eggs that I could get some eggs baby, in 164 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:22,760 Speaker 1: the eggs. I had to get your queen's size that side. 165 00:10:22,960 --> 00:10:26,280 Speaker 1: I don't remember anything. Okay, okay, Well how about this 166 00:10:26,400 --> 00:10:30,880 Speaker 1: right here. How about that time you wouldn't come see 167 00:10:30,880 --> 00:10:33,240 Speaker 1: me unless I gassed up your car and changed the 168 00:10:33,320 --> 00:10:41,440 Speaker 1: oil in it. That Now you drove my car. You 169 00:10:41,520 --> 00:10:44,720 Speaker 1: had my car, took it right down to Jiffy Loop, 170 00:10:45,559 --> 00:10:51,760 Speaker 1: my cutless Supreme you had that. You had one with 171 00:10:51,800 --> 00:10:56,160 Speaker 1: the lower seats in it. Yeah, I had the white 172 00:10:56,360 --> 00:11:00,280 Speaker 1: stared wheel, padded wrap on it. I had the white 173 00:11:00,320 --> 00:11:05,400 Speaker 1: steering wheel. I do remember that? Uh not okay? And 174 00:11:05,559 --> 00:11:07,559 Speaker 1: you say you gassed it and put all in it. 175 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:11,560 Speaker 1: I change your oil a Jiffy Luke and gassed it 176 00:11:11,679 --> 00:11:17,120 Speaker 1: up right next door at quick trip, A quick trip. Yeah, 177 00:11:17,160 --> 00:11:21,640 Speaker 1: that's down the street, quick trip. And you and you 178 00:11:21,760 --> 00:11:31,480 Speaker 1: as Curtis, you say, right, Curtis, Curtis, Curtis with a kid, Curtis, Curtis, 179 00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:34,920 Speaker 1: I know your mama, Curtis. Do I know your man? No, 180 00:11:35,080 --> 00:11:41,600 Speaker 1: you don't know my mama. I'm saving hell. You're gonna 181 00:11:41,640 --> 00:11:50,400 Speaker 1: know my mama. Oh this, Curtis, I'm sevendy eighth Curtis. 182 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:55,360 Speaker 1: Now you're saying we had relations Curtis. Oh you're gonna 183 00:11:55,400 --> 00:12:03,840 Speaker 1: play dom now, Curtis, we had relationship? When did we had? What? Jim? 184 00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:10,000 Speaker 1: I don't I had a room for four hour, twelve off, 185 00:12:10,280 --> 00:12:14,520 Speaker 1: four hour. Oh no, I had room for the bed 186 00:12:14,640 --> 00:12:18,480 Speaker 1: of a draw on the floor. Oh no, Miss Cookie 187 00:12:18,480 --> 00:12:21,040 Speaker 1: wouldn't go nowhere like that. You think, you think, miss Cook, 188 00:12:21,080 --> 00:12:25,080 Speaker 1: it went somewhere like that. You had to go out 189 00:12:25,120 --> 00:12:27,960 Speaker 1: and gassed up the car on a change. All I 190 00:12:28,080 --> 00:12:30,920 Speaker 1: had a call wash for you, and I put a 191 00:12:30,960 --> 00:12:34,160 Speaker 1: brand new white stand we will wrap on it. It 192 00:12:34,280 --> 00:12:36,679 Speaker 1: had a little pair of baby shoes you had in 193 00:12:36,760 --> 00:12:39,520 Speaker 1: now wipe them off and made them look like baby shoes. 194 00:12:40,360 --> 00:12:47,280 Speaker 1: All right, listen, post your car Strawberry Letter, No, post 195 00:12:47,320 --> 00:12:50,079 Speaker 1: your comments on Today Strawberry Letter and Steve Harvey FM 196 00:12:50,080 --> 00:12:52,600 Speaker 1: and Instagram and Facebook, and check out the Strawberry Letter 197 00:12:52,679 --> 00:12:55,920 Speaker 1: podcast on demand now coming up in forty six minutes 198 00:12:56,000 --> 00:13:00,200 Speaker 1: after the hour, Curtis and the Cookie, Crazy Cookie Lady back. No, 199 00:13:00,520 --> 00:13:05,640 Speaker 1: it's Junior in Sports Talk. Right after this, you're listening 200 00:13:05,760 --> 00:13:07,640 Speaker 1: to the Dave Harvey Morning Show.