1 00:00:00,960 --> 00:00:03,720 Speaker 1: All right, guys, it is time now for today's Strawberry 2 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:08,240 Speaker 1: Letter and listen. If you need advice on relationships, dating, work, sex, parenting, 3 00:00:08,240 --> 00:00:12,640 Speaker 1: it more, please submit your Strawberry Letter to Steve HARVEYFM 4 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:15,920 Speaker 1: dot com and click submit Strawberry Letter. We could be 5 00:00:15,960 --> 00:00:18,160 Speaker 1: reading your letter live on the air, just like we're 6 00:00:18,160 --> 00:00:21,119 Speaker 1: gonna read that one right here, right now. That's what 7 00:00:21,160 --> 00:00:23,040 Speaker 1: we're gonna Buggle up and hold on tight. We got 8 00:00:23,040 --> 00:00:26,760 Speaker 1: it for you. Here it is Strawberry Letter. Thank you, nephew. 9 00:00:26,920 --> 00:00:31,520 Speaker 1: Subject the Cookie Lady is back in town. Dear Stephen Shirley. 10 00:00:31,880 --> 00:00:34,239 Speaker 1: I'm a forty three year old woman and I have 11 00:00:34,280 --> 00:00:37,600 Speaker 1: a small group of friends who have all known each 12 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:41,519 Speaker 1: other since high school. We've been strict about quarantining, so 13 00:00:41,560 --> 00:00:44,120 Speaker 1: we agreed to meet once a week for drinks and dinner. 14 00:00:44,560 --> 00:00:47,880 Speaker 1: It's really helped us feel better and maintain a sense 15 00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:51,240 Speaker 1: of normalcy with all the craziness going on in the world. 16 00:00:51,479 --> 00:00:54,240 Speaker 1: About a month ago, another girl who went to high 17 00:00:54,280 --> 00:00:58,440 Speaker 1: school with us moved back into town. But there's just 18 00:00:58,520 --> 00:01:04,240 Speaker 1: one problem. She's slept with all of our husbands, yet 19 00:01:04,280 --> 00:01:09,360 Speaker 1: all of them. This girl was very promiscuous, and yeah, 20 00:01:09,400 --> 00:01:12,560 Speaker 1: she was very promiscuous in high school and was known 21 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:14,800 Speaker 1: for being the girl that all the guys went to 22 00:01:15,280 --> 00:01:19,240 Speaker 1: for some easy cookie. She even gave a cookie away 23 00:01:19,280 --> 00:01:21,560 Speaker 1: when she was in college. So now me and the 24 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:24,399 Speaker 1: group are concerned because she reached out to us and 25 00:01:24,440 --> 00:01:27,640 Speaker 1: said that she would love to be in our weekly gatherings. 26 00:01:27,959 --> 00:01:30,720 Speaker 1: The problem is that we don't trust her and we 27 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:33,880 Speaker 1: don't really think she's going to fit in well with us. Yes, 28 00:01:33,959 --> 00:01:37,120 Speaker 1: it was a long time ago, but some of that 29 00:01:37,240 --> 00:01:41,000 Speaker 1: resentment is still there. Also, she is still single and 30 00:01:41,080 --> 00:01:43,759 Speaker 1: in much better shape than the rest of us who've 31 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:47,160 Speaker 1: had several children. We are afraid that our husbands will 32 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:49,600 Speaker 1: see her and have flashbacks of how she was in 33 00:01:49,680 --> 00:01:53,320 Speaker 1: high school and college. My husband saw a photo of 34 00:01:53,320 --> 00:01:56,520 Speaker 1: her on Facebook and said he couldn't believe how good 35 00:01:56,560 --> 00:01:59,360 Speaker 1: she still looks. I'm not sure why he was comfortable 36 00:01:59,480 --> 00:02:01,960 Speaker 1: enough to tell me that, but it really put me 37 00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:04,800 Speaker 1: on edge. I call my best girlfriend and told her 38 00:02:04,840 --> 00:02:06,800 Speaker 1: that I don't think we should bring this woman into 39 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:09,720 Speaker 1: our close knit group. She agreed. Do you think we're 40 00:02:09,760 --> 00:02:14,240 Speaker 1: being overly sensitive about this? No, nope, I don't think 41 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:16,840 Speaker 1: you're being overly sensitive at all. I think you're right 42 00:02:16,880 --> 00:02:19,440 Speaker 1: on point. I think you have a reason to be 43 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:23,080 Speaker 1: concerned about girlfriend. This woman, the cookie lady as you 44 00:02:23,160 --> 00:02:27,040 Speaker 1: call her, has slept with all of your husbands. They 45 00:02:27,080 --> 00:02:30,280 Speaker 1: weren't your husband's then, but you know that was a 46 00:02:30,320 --> 00:02:33,800 Speaker 1: long time ago, but the thought of it probably still 47 00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:36,560 Speaker 1: pains you a little bit or something. You still feel 48 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:39,399 Speaker 1: some kind of way about it, and you know this 49 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:42,880 Speaker 1: woman could be trouble. She could be trouble. You don't know. 50 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:47,040 Speaker 1: Can people change, Yes, absolutely, they can change. Most definitely 51 00:02:47,160 --> 00:02:50,560 Speaker 1: did she change? We don't know who knows if she's 52 00:02:50,639 --> 00:02:53,960 Speaker 1: changed or not. But there is a reason you don't 53 00:02:53,960 --> 00:02:57,960 Speaker 1: trust her. I think I would take this as a 54 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:01,200 Speaker 1: wake up call, though I really would. I'm switching gears 55 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:03,160 Speaker 1: here a little bit. I would take this as a 56 00:03:03,160 --> 00:03:06,919 Speaker 1: wake up call because your husband, you said in the letter, 57 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:10,600 Speaker 1: commented when you showed him a picture of her on 58 00:03:10,600 --> 00:03:14,480 Speaker 1: Facebook that she still looks good and he felt very 59 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:20,000 Speaker 1: comfortable saying that to you. Red flag. So she's in 60 00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:23,880 Speaker 1: great shape, you're saying, and you guys aren't because you've 61 00:03:23,880 --> 00:03:28,440 Speaker 1: had children, you know, which means that your friends aren't 62 00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:30,920 Speaker 1: in good shape either. They've had children too, and you 63 00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:33,800 Speaker 1: said several So I think what you and your girls 64 00:03:33,880 --> 00:03:37,160 Speaker 1: could do and maybe should do. Instead of meeting to drink, 65 00:03:37,280 --> 00:03:40,640 Speaker 1: you know, with the whole group drink and eat, maybe 66 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:44,120 Speaker 1: just the ladies could start like a diet club, start 67 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:48,120 Speaker 1: working out together. Okay, all right now I'm gonna remember 68 00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:52,800 Speaker 1: that comment, right. I mean, maybe you guys him not 69 00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:57,800 Speaker 1: a down and and uh you know, so I think 70 00:03:58,120 --> 00:04:02,080 Speaker 1: maybe to something like this, you ladies can invite the 71 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:05,360 Speaker 1: cookie lady, you know, to join you for something like that, 72 00:04:05,480 --> 00:04:08,840 Speaker 1: just the girls, just the ladies, no men, no husbands. 73 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:11,520 Speaker 1: This way, I think you ladies will have a chance 74 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:14,400 Speaker 1: to meet with her, feel her out, you know, see 75 00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:16,719 Speaker 1: if if she's changed, See if you guys want to 76 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:19,120 Speaker 1: take it any further with her, if you, in the 77 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:21,600 Speaker 1: future you do want to bring her around your husband. 78 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:25,120 Speaker 1: You gotta see. People do change. But I think you know, 79 00:04:25,200 --> 00:04:27,320 Speaker 1: if you're feeling not so good about the way you 80 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:30,000 Speaker 1: look because of what your husband said about her, that's 81 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:34,839 Speaker 1: a good time to meet up and do something about it. Steve, Well, 82 00:04:36,040 --> 00:04:38,040 Speaker 1: normally I don't start at the back of the letter, 83 00:04:38,080 --> 00:04:40,800 Speaker 1: but that's where Sherley you started, so I feel compelled 84 00:04:40,839 --> 00:04:44,839 Speaker 1: to do the same thing. After this whole letter. The 85 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:52,760 Speaker 1: question is, do you think we're being overly sensitive about this. No, Now, 86 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:57,000 Speaker 1: why do I think you're not being overly sensitive? Three things? 87 00:04:57,520 --> 00:05:01,640 Speaker 1: I think y'all scared. I think y'all should be scared. 88 00:05:02,839 --> 00:05:07,240 Speaker 1: And I think she could have changed, but your husbands 89 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:11,599 Speaker 1: ain't interested in change. Now, let us begin with the 90 00:05:11,760 --> 00:05:17,200 Speaker 1: letter forty three went to college with this girl. You 91 00:05:17,279 --> 00:05:19,480 Speaker 1: get together with all your friends, y'all, with the school 92 00:05:19,520 --> 00:05:22,200 Speaker 1: with doing the quarantine every friday, y'all having a good time. 93 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:25,240 Speaker 1: About a month ago, another girl went to high school 94 00:05:25,279 --> 00:05:28,919 Speaker 1: with y'all, moved back into town. Here she comes, but 95 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:33,600 Speaker 1: it's just one problem. She has slept with all our husbands. Yes, 96 00:05:33,800 --> 00:05:36,839 Speaker 1: all of them. Well, damn, how many of y'all listen? 97 00:05:37,880 --> 00:05:41,919 Speaker 1: Because that ain't that ain't got a number, all of them, 98 00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:45,440 Speaker 1: every last one of them. We need to do some 99 00:05:45,520 --> 00:05:50,160 Speaker 1: testing in this little group here. That's what we need 100 00:05:50,320 --> 00:05:55,360 Speaker 1: to do, some damn testing this little group right here. 101 00:05:55,680 --> 00:06:01,040 Speaker 1: Ain't y'all being extra friendy? And hey, hey lady, I 102 00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:02,800 Speaker 1: know you didn't think la we're gonna go like this, 103 00:06:03,040 --> 00:06:06,679 Speaker 1: but I just want to throw that out. This girl 104 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:10,760 Speaker 1: was very promiscuous in high school. There's no being that 105 00:06:10,920 --> 00:06:13,960 Speaker 1: girl that all the gas went to for some easy 106 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:18,400 Speaker 1: cookie everybody. She even gave a cookie away where she 107 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:22,360 Speaker 1: was in college. Oh so did what she do? Well? 108 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:28,440 Speaker 1: Hold on, hold on, and I blame the stadium. You know, concessions, lady, 109 00:06:29,480 --> 00:06:34,840 Speaker 1: cookie hair, get your cookain's hair. I ain't even calling 110 00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:39,240 Speaker 1: it the cookie in the first place. With your book. Look, 111 00:06:39,279 --> 00:06:41,839 Speaker 1: we'll have part two of Steve's response coming up at 112 00:06:41,839 --> 00:06:44,480 Speaker 1: twenty three minutes after the hours, So don't go anywhere. 113 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:47,760 Speaker 1: Subject today of the Strawberry Letter, the Cookie Lady is 114 00:06:47,960 --> 00:06:51,240 Speaker 1: back in town. Get your cookies here. We'll be right back. 115 00:06:51,880 --> 00:06:56,039 Speaker 1: You're listening Steve Harvey Morning Show. All right, come on, Steve, 116 00:06:56,160 --> 00:06:59,880 Speaker 1: let's recap today's Strawberry letters. Subjects. The cookie Lady is 117 00:07:00,279 --> 00:07:03,360 Speaker 1: back in town. Forty three year old lady got a 118 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:05,200 Speaker 1: group of friends. They went to school together. They all 119 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:07,120 Speaker 1: get together once a week doing this COVID to help 120 00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:09,720 Speaker 1: a deal with the craziness. They all being quarantined so 121 00:07:09,840 --> 00:07:14,200 Speaker 1: everybody's safe. They feel comfortable one another. Um they got. 122 00:07:14,280 --> 00:07:17,600 Speaker 1: About a month ago, another girl from their school came 123 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:21,640 Speaker 1: back to town. But here's the problem. The girl is 124 00:07:21,680 --> 00:07:25,000 Speaker 1: coming back to town to slept with all of the 125 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:34,640 Speaker 1: group's husbands out of them ain't missed no damn by clean, 126 00:07:34,760 --> 00:07:48,680 Speaker 1: sweet total boo to everybody. Hey, clockas cockade coca everybody, 127 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:52,280 Speaker 1: She just come out the castle and blow the trumpet 128 00:07:54,200 --> 00:08:00,560 Speaker 1: colocase you're crazy. She even gave a look get away 129 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:03,400 Speaker 1: when she was in college. Now you and the group 130 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:08,560 Speaker 1: is concerned, and rightfully so, because she hadn't reached out 131 00:08:08,600 --> 00:08:11,320 Speaker 1: and says she would love it being on that weekly gatherings. 132 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:15,520 Speaker 1: How she find out about the gathering? Oh for her 133 00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:17,960 Speaker 1: to just come back into town for a month and 134 00:08:18,160 --> 00:08:23,760 Speaker 1: find out about these weekly gatherings. Maybe one of your 135 00:08:23,960 --> 00:08:27,440 Speaker 1: husbands said, you know what day they get together? Every Friday? 136 00:08:28,400 --> 00:08:31,160 Speaker 1: Because if y'all surprised about it, where when did they 137 00:08:31,200 --> 00:08:35,120 Speaker 1: get the information? Unless y'all small ass town is really 138 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:40,199 Speaker 1: really small. Now this whole group has been affiliated with 139 00:08:40,360 --> 00:08:43,120 Speaker 1: one another. The first thing we need to do we 140 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:46,280 Speaker 1: need some testing done in this group. Let's just go 141 00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:48,719 Speaker 1: back over there. We need some damn testing going on 142 00:08:48,880 --> 00:08:53,559 Speaker 1: in this time right there. And it ain't COVID. I 143 00:08:53,640 --> 00:08:56,079 Speaker 1: ain't talking about COVID. We need to get some testing 144 00:08:56,240 --> 00:09:01,640 Speaker 1: done all right now. The problem is that we don't 145 00:09:01,720 --> 00:09:04,199 Speaker 1: trust her, and we really don't think she's gonna fit 146 00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:08,320 Speaker 1: in well with us. Oh you don't think she will 147 00:09:08,360 --> 00:09:11,240 Speaker 1: fit in well with y'all, But you ain't asked y'all's 148 00:09:11,440 --> 00:09:17,280 Speaker 1: husband sto see what they think? Why you know? So 149 00:09:17,559 --> 00:09:26,000 Speaker 1: now here we go, people change, things change. Oh now 150 00:09:26,200 --> 00:09:30,280 Speaker 1: she's just slept with all y'all's men. Times have changed. 151 00:09:30,280 --> 00:09:32,599 Speaker 1: It was a long time ago, but some of that 152 00:09:32,720 --> 00:09:37,040 Speaker 1: resentment is there also now here we go, she's still 153 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:39,520 Speaker 1: single and in much better shape than the rest of 154 00:09:39,679 --> 00:09:44,040 Speaker 1: us who've had several children. He'll go to damn problem 155 00:09:44,200 --> 00:09:53,120 Speaker 1: right here. She still banging. Oh now, Sirley surprised me 156 00:09:53,240 --> 00:09:56,760 Speaker 1: with her answer. Tommas, since y'all get together every Friday, 157 00:09:56,840 --> 00:10:00,320 Speaker 1: and y'all are a little worried because she's still fine. 158 00:10:00,840 --> 00:10:03,959 Speaker 1: Shirley did what calling them won't let me ever do. 159 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:09,079 Speaker 1: I can't Fashiaine nobody I get called out. Oh, but 160 00:10:09,200 --> 00:10:11,760 Speaker 1: now you're talking about instead of sitting around drinking, why 161 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:14,880 Speaker 1: don't y'all's ass get together and eat the right damn 162 00:10:15,040 --> 00:10:19,680 Speaker 1: foods instead of drinking, Why don't y'all have celery juice 163 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:22,719 Speaker 1: and chew on some carriage or something and try to 164 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:25,360 Speaker 1: get some of that weight off y'all's ass Instead of 165 00:10:25,440 --> 00:10:27,760 Speaker 1: sitting over here. There, here comes this little, fine, little 166 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:31,240 Speaker 1: smoking ass thing that your husband saw on Facebook and 167 00:10:31,440 --> 00:10:34,319 Speaker 1: had the nerve to tell you he couldn't believe how 168 00:10:34,400 --> 00:10:38,320 Speaker 1: good she still looked. Don't let this girl in your group. 169 00:10:40,280 --> 00:10:44,440 Speaker 1: She can't get in this group. It's a problem. She's 170 00:10:44,440 --> 00:10:49,599 Speaker 1: a Facebook problem. Now you don't think your husband, de 171 00:10:49,679 --> 00:10:54,560 Speaker 1: said to the other hooband man, you've seen something, so girl, 172 00:10:54,600 --> 00:10:56,920 Speaker 1: you need to see this thing right here. She still 173 00:10:57,280 --> 00:11:02,360 Speaker 1: got it, I surely said. Now, first of all, your 174 00:11:02,480 --> 00:11:05,959 Speaker 1: husband is stupid. Let me just extract them to your 175 00:11:06,120 --> 00:11:11,040 Speaker 1: husband is the biggest damn idiot I've ever seen. Now, 176 00:11:11,160 --> 00:11:14,960 Speaker 1: y'all gonna let her skinny ass in the group. Still fine, 177 00:11:15,600 --> 00:11:19,800 Speaker 1: still banging, she's single, she gave birth to no kids. 178 00:11:20,080 --> 00:11:24,040 Speaker 1: Now here she comes. I don't think we have a 179 00:11:24,160 --> 00:11:27,240 Speaker 1: solution to this letter, except you can't let her banging 180 00:11:27,320 --> 00:11:32,040 Speaker 1: ass back in this group. You called your girlfriend and 181 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:34,360 Speaker 1: you told her you don't think that, and your girlfriend 182 00:11:34,400 --> 00:11:37,920 Speaker 1: agreed because she looked her up on Facebook too and said, no, jeez, 183 00:11:40,679 --> 00:11:43,480 Speaker 1: do you think we're being overly sensitive? No? I don't. 184 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:49,079 Speaker 1: Now do people change, Yes, they change, and obviously she 185 00:11:49,280 --> 00:11:53,680 Speaker 1: has changed for the better, because when a woman getting 186 00:11:53,679 --> 00:11:56,360 Speaker 1: in her forties and still holding it together. That's a 187 00:11:56,520 --> 00:11:59,560 Speaker 1: bad chick right there. And if they get in their 188 00:11:59,640 --> 00:12:05,800 Speaker 1: fifties and still holding together, that's a bad chick right there. Yes, see, 189 00:12:06,080 --> 00:12:09,640 Speaker 1: cost the chances of everybody holding it together in their 190 00:12:09,720 --> 00:12:13,520 Speaker 1: farties in fifties gets slimmer and slimmer. So now you're 191 00:12:13,559 --> 00:12:18,319 Speaker 1: gonna invite You're gonna invite the fat person to the 192 00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:22,680 Speaker 1: to the poe eating contest. How you think that's gonna 193 00:12:22,720 --> 00:12:29,959 Speaker 1: work out? This is a sad thing, Yes it is, Yes, 194 00:12:30,040 --> 00:12:32,240 Speaker 1: it is because Shirley and the Cordey Shirley, it is 195 00:12:32,320 --> 00:12:35,600 Speaker 1: good and all this happy hour y'all having start bringing 196 00:12:35,720 --> 00:12:40,079 Speaker 1: Celery to these happy hours, as Shirley suggested, think you 197 00:12:40,160 --> 00:12:43,120 Speaker 1: could have had a va instead of that damn Margaret Reader. 198 00:12:44,840 --> 00:12:49,280 Speaker 1: They got skinny Margit. Take a picture of that girl 199 00:12:49,360 --> 00:12:51,440 Speaker 1: off of Facebook and bring it to the next meeting, 200 00:12:51,600 --> 00:12:55,240 Speaker 1: y'all ask quit eating? All right? Thank you? Steve Poster 201 00:12:55,440 --> 00:12:59,760 Speaker 1: comment on today's Back and the Fellas Know It the 202 00:13:00,040 --> 00:13:03,760 Speaker 1: Hookie Lady. 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