1 00:00:01,280 --> 00:00:04,040 Speaker 1: Time now for today's Strawberry Letter, and of you need 2 00:00:04,080 --> 00:00:08,680 Speaker 1: advice on relationships, dating, work, sex, parenting and more. Please 3 00:00:08,720 --> 00:00:11,520 Speaker 1: submit your Strawberry Letter to Steve HARVEYFM dot com and 4 00:00:11,560 --> 00:00:15,760 Speaker 1: click submit to Strawberry Letter. We could be reading your 5 00:00:15,840 --> 00:00:18,200 Speaker 1: letter live on the air, just like we're going to 6 00:00:18,280 --> 00:00:22,040 Speaker 1: read this one right here, right now for you Jay, 7 00:00:22,280 --> 00:00:26,880 Speaker 1: And you never know this letter could be yours. Buggle up, 8 00:00:26,960 --> 00:00:28,760 Speaker 1: hold on tight, We got it for you here. It 9 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:33,080 Speaker 1: is the Strawberry Letter. Think enough you subjects choosing between 10 00:00:33,240 --> 00:00:39,400 Speaker 1: two two toothless men. Dear Stephen Shirley, I'm a forty 11 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:43,680 Speaker 1: eight year old single, educated and professional woman that has 12 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:46,800 Speaker 1: never been married. I have dated three guys in the 13 00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:49,360 Speaker 1: last eight years and decided to give it a rest 14 00:00:49,560 --> 00:00:53,159 Speaker 1: until recently when I met a very nice man that 15 00:00:53,240 --> 00:00:56,040 Speaker 1: works with my aunt. We talked a few weeks over 16 00:00:56,120 --> 00:00:59,040 Speaker 1: the phone before we met. Then he called me one 17 00:00:59,080 --> 00:01:01,480 Speaker 1: day and said he'd been in a bad car accident 18 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:04,520 Speaker 1: and his face hit his steering wheel, so he had 19 00:01:04,520 --> 00:01:07,759 Speaker 1: to have emergency oral surgery and all he could think 20 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:10,560 Speaker 1: about was me. I rushed over to see him, and 21 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:13,760 Speaker 1: when I got there, he greeted me with a big 22 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:19,880 Speaker 1: toothless grin. His two top front teeth and three teeth 23 00:01:19,959 --> 00:01:23,759 Speaker 1: on the bottom were missing. He is already not that handsome, 24 00:01:24,080 --> 00:01:26,800 Speaker 1: but I was willing to overlook that because we had 25 00:01:26,840 --> 00:01:29,960 Speaker 1: a great vibe and a lot in common. We went 26 00:01:29,959 --> 00:01:32,640 Speaker 1: out a few more times and I was so embarrassed 27 00:01:32,640 --> 00:01:35,120 Speaker 1: by him. Then he said it would be close to 28 00:01:35,160 --> 00:01:38,679 Speaker 1: a year before he could get tooth in plants because 29 00:01:38,720 --> 00:01:41,959 Speaker 1: there was a glitch with his insurance. I was honest 30 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:44,080 Speaker 1: with him and said, it's a big turn off to 31 00:01:44,160 --> 00:01:47,319 Speaker 1: kiss a man without teeth. I broke it off with him, 32 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:50,200 Speaker 1: and he still calls to say he misses me. I 33 00:01:50,320 --> 00:01:52,680 Speaker 1: miss him too, but he still does not have his 34 00:01:52,760 --> 00:01:57,040 Speaker 1: new teeth. So I met another great guy, and he 35 00:01:57,120 --> 00:02:01,520 Speaker 1: is slightly older than me. On our first date, he 36 00:02:01,560 --> 00:02:05,440 Speaker 1: took his false teeth or partials out of his mouth 37 00:02:05,760 --> 00:02:08,880 Speaker 1: and put him in a napkin. He says it rubs 38 00:02:09,160 --> 00:02:12,600 Speaker 1: his gums, so he only puts it on on special occasions. 39 00:02:12,720 --> 00:02:15,640 Speaker 1: Puts them in on special occasions. I can't believe that 40 00:02:15,720 --> 00:02:19,560 Speaker 1: I found yet another man without teeth. The problem is 41 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:23,040 Speaker 1: I really like him too. It seems like God wants 42 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:26,600 Speaker 1: me to be with a toothless man. So should I 43 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:29,080 Speaker 1: choose a guy that might get new teeth one day 44 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:31,560 Speaker 1: or keep dating a man that takes his teeth out 45 00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:36,639 Speaker 1: whenever he wants. Please help. Okay, first of all, why 46 00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:39,080 Speaker 1: you bring God into this? God wants me to be 47 00:02:39,200 --> 00:02:43,120 Speaker 1: with a toothless man. You are forty eight years old, 48 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:47,800 Speaker 1: you're single, educated and professional. Nowhere in that description does 49 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:52,520 Speaker 1: it say you are desperate, and that's what you would 50 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:54,760 Speaker 1: have to be. You would have to be desperate to 51 00:02:54,840 --> 00:02:57,840 Speaker 1: continue dating these two guys. This would be what we 52 00:02:57,919 --> 00:03:01,600 Speaker 1: call settling. Okay, And you don't have to settle. You 53 00:03:01,720 --> 00:03:04,360 Speaker 1: do not have to do that. Neither of these guys 54 00:03:05,360 --> 00:03:08,040 Speaker 1: should even be trying to date right now until they 55 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:11,120 Speaker 1: get their grills fixed. If his teeth are rubbing against 56 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:14,440 Speaker 1: his gums, he probably needs to go back and get 57 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:18,200 Speaker 1: them shaved down or something. Trust me, they would not 58 00:03:18,360 --> 00:03:21,400 Speaker 1: date you if you didn't have teeth in your mouth. Okay, 59 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:24,600 Speaker 1: if some of your teeth were missing, they wouldn't even 60 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:28,360 Speaker 1: look at you. Come on, these snaggletooth guys are not 61 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:31,600 Speaker 1: your only hope and they're not the last man on earth. 62 00:03:31,919 --> 00:03:34,520 Speaker 1: So just keep doing you. And that just means please 63 00:03:34,600 --> 00:03:38,000 Speaker 1: do not settle. You can do better and expand your 64 00:03:38,040 --> 00:03:41,360 Speaker 1: horizons a little bit. Go on dating sites. Ask your friends. 65 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:43,560 Speaker 1: I know it's been a while, but you gotta get 66 00:03:43,560 --> 00:03:46,120 Speaker 1: more into it. Ask your friends to hook you up, 67 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:48,800 Speaker 1: friends of friends to hook you up. Let people know 68 00:03:48,880 --> 00:03:52,840 Speaker 1: you're interested and you're single and ready to mingle. Or 69 00:03:52,880 --> 00:03:58,560 Speaker 1: if Tommy would say, ready to love? Okay, Steve, Yeah, thanks, Shelly, 70 00:03:58,760 --> 00:04:01,840 Speaker 1: great answer. Ain't got a damn thing to do with nothing, 71 00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:04,800 Speaker 1: Sherley said, I've been to tell you what truth is 72 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:07,440 Speaker 1: in this letter right here, y'all all these feelings and 73 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:11,800 Speaker 1: all this here, let's just read this damned letter the 74 00:04:11,840 --> 00:04:15,400 Speaker 1: way it's supposed to be read and diagnosed. Shelly's actually 75 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:20,400 Speaker 1: trying to help you. I ain't. Yes, let's be clear, No, 76 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:25,599 Speaker 1: I'm not. I've been to tell some people about their selves. 77 00:04:25,839 --> 00:04:30,320 Speaker 1: You forty eight old years old, single, educated professional woman? 78 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:38,200 Speaker 1: NA so educated though, na so much? You might be 79 00:04:38,240 --> 00:04:42,800 Speaker 1: book smart, but who you're falling for? The okay doke? 80 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:48,240 Speaker 1: I have dated three guys in the last eight years 81 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:51,000 Speaker 1: and decided to give it a rest, and to recently 82 00:04:51,839 --> 00:04:55,080 Speaker 1: when I met a very nice man. Listen to this 83 00:04:55,560 --> 00:05:01,680 Speaker 1: that works with my aunt right there. When have you 84 00:05:01,960 --> 00:05:07,040 Speaker 1: ever met anybody that was an attractive that was friends 85 00:05:07,080 --> 00:05:11,640 Speaker 1: with your damn on. All my aunt's friends is utter, 86 00:05:11,880 --> 00:05:16,039 Speaker 1: asked people, and my damn on adding us ain't got 87 00:05:16,080 --> 00:05:20,960 Speaker 1: a cute friend. Hell, she ain't cute. Now, it's no 88 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:26,160 Speaker 1: way you can possibly expect to meet an attractive man 89 00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:31,839 Speaker 1: that worked with your damn on bag, And right there, 90 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:37,400 Speaker 1: nobody has ever met an attractive person through the damn on. 91 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:41,960 Speaker 1: We talked a few times over the phone before we met. 92 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:47,320 Speaker 1: You know why, because he already and new I can't 93 00:05:47,400 --> 00:05:52,200 Speaker 1: let you see me live. We gonna keep this over 94 00:05:52,279 --> 00:05:55,799 Speaker 1: the phone till I get you hooked. Then he called 95 00:05:55,880 --> 00:05:58,279 Speaker 1: me one day and said he'd been in the bad 96 00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:01,680 Speaker 1: cocks and did in his face hit the standwheel, so 97 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:04,920 Speaker 1: he adn't have emergency all surgery, and all he could 98 00:06:04,960 --> 00:06:07,560 Speaker 1: think about was me. I rushed over to see him. 99 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:17,720 Speaker 1: What why he just had jet head? A damn accident? 100 00:06:19,560 --> 00:06:26,240 Speaker 1: Oh how convenient this is? This raggedy mouth, asked, man, 101 00:06:26,360 --> 00:06:30,880 Speaker 1: been looking like this for years? That's why he kept 102 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:34,200 Speaker 1: you on that phone for two weeks, Y'allun ain't mentioned 103 00:06:34,240 --> 00:06:37,400 Speaker 1: the damn accident, all right, And I didn't tell you 104 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:39,680 Speaker 1: nothing about his mouth either. I got more when I 105 00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:42,640 Speaker 1: come back. All right, we'll have part two of Steve's 106 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:45,159 Speaker 1: response coming up at twenty three minutes after the hour. 107 00:06:45,320 --> 00:06:49,800 Speaker 1: Subject of today's strawberry letter, choosing between two toothless men, 108 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:53,760 Speaker 1: will get back into it right after this. You're listening 109 00:06:54,040 --> 00:06:57,560 Speaker 1: to Steve Harvey Morning Show. All right, Come on, Steve, 110 00:06:57,600 --> 00:07:00,679 Speaker 1: Let's recap today's strawberry letter. The subject us in between 111 00:07:00,720 --> 00:07:07,080 Speaker 1: two toothless men. Forty eight year old lady single say 112 00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:13,720 Speaker 1: she educated in profession, might be educated book wise, but 113 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:20,080 Speaker 1: very easily can be Oky dope. Here comes the Oki dope. 114 00:07:20,960 --> 00:07:23,320 Speaker 1: Met a very nice man that worked with my aunt 115 00:07:24,640 --> 00:07:31,160 Speaker 1: once again, Who has you your ever bought over to 116 00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:38,520 Speaker 1: your damn house that was attractive? Ever ever in the 117 00:07:38,760 --> 00:07:46,840 Speaker 1: history of our families, name your aunt that has dated, married, 118 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:55,400 Speaker 1: or been friends with an attractive man? Uncle Herman, Uncle Clans, 119 00:07:57,040 --> 00:08:02,400 Speaker 1: Uncle Heathrow, Uncle Lester. I'm just going down the name 120 00:08:02,760 --> 00:08:06,480 Speaker 1: on hold is. I'm just going down the knas it 121 00:08:06,680 --> 00:08:11,200 Speaker 1: is him attracted. No, all right. We talked a few 122 00:08:11,240 --> 00:08:13,760 Speaker 1: weeks over the phone before we met. Got to get 123 00:08:13,760 --> 00:08:15,400 Speaker 1: you over the phone. Can't just let you meet me 124 00:08:15,480 --> 00:08:18,560 Speaker 1: right off? Then he called me one day and said 125 00:08:18,600 --> 00:08:21,080 Speaker 1: he'd been in a bad cocciden. See this, he'd have 126 00:08:21,120 --> 00:08:24,800 Speaker 1: told this before, he'd have set this up before, because 127 00:08:24,840 --> 00:08:27,600 Speaker 1: I you liking me over this phone. Now we fit 128 00:08:27,720 --> 00:08:31,040 Speaker 1: to meet. Hey, I just been in a bad coccident. 129 00:08:32,160 --> 00:08:35,199 Speaker 1: His face hit the staring wheel where his air bag 130 00:08:35,280 --> 00:08:41,320 Speaker 1: at most cause over the last twenty years that had 131 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:47,120 Speaker 1: air bags where his air bags at. How his mouth 132 00:08:47,200 --> 00:08:51,800 Speaker 1: hidden stand will tear out his whole damn mouth, Lady 133 00:08:52,240 --> 00:08:56,040 Speaker 1: laid in. He had to have emergency or surgery, and 134 00:08:56,160 --> 00:08:58,520 Speaker 1: all he could think about was me. I rushed over 135 00:08:58,559 --> 00:09:00,760 Speaker 1: to see him. Or when I got there, he greeted 136 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:03,079 Speaker 1: me with a big, toothless grin. You ain't see no 137 00:09:03,160 --> 00:09:05,640 Speaker 1: blood on it. Digit he didn't have gall stuck up 138 00:09:05,640 --> 00:09:08,760 Speaker 1: in that diddy, Naw, just a toothless grin smiling. Did 139 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:11,480 Speaker 1: his gums look like they had just been injured, Naw, 140 00:09:11,880 --> 00:09:16,560 Speaker 1: they were smooth and wet because they've been there for 141 00:09:16,640 --> 00:09:19,960 Speaker 1: a while. His two front teeth and three of his 142 00:09:20,080 --> 00:09:23,520 Speaker 1: bottom teeth was missing. And he is already not that 143 00:09:23,679 --> 00:09:27,120 Speaker 1: handsome good lord them body. Now we got an ugly 144 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:31,480 Speaker 1: ass man with a ragged ass mouth. Ivy, damn you, 145 00:09:31,760 --> 00:09:34,760 Speaker 1: your educated ass is falling for the oak door. And 146 00:09:34,880 --> 00:09:37,360 Speaker 1: you know what makes him money attractive because it ain't 147 00:09:37,360 --> 00:09:41,719 Speaker 1: got no damn teeth talking about a damn cocks, And 148 00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:44,400 Speaker 1: didn't his mouth been like that for a while, y'all 149 00:09:44,440 --> 00:09:47,960 Speaker 1: ain't said nothing to you. She probably don't even know 150 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:51,960 Speaker 1: you're talking to the man. She'd told you. And he's 151 00:09:52,080 --> 00:09:56,120 Speaker 1: already not that handsome now he ugly. Now he ain't 152 00:09:56,160 --> 00:09:59,680 Speaker 1: got a nice smile. He ugly inn when he talked, 153 00:10:00,120 --> 00:10:03,080 Speaker 1: worse when he smiled his word when he eats, just 154 00:10:03,200 --> 00:10:06,160 Speaker 1: spitting food all over the table. It's hard to keep 155 00:10:06,240 --> 00:10:08,280 Speaker 1: food in your mouth. You ain't got teeth. I got 156 00:10:08,360 --> 00:10:10,800 Speaker 1: to talk to people ain't got teeth. Before I get it, 157 00:10:10,800 --> 00:10:12,760 Speaker 1: I'll walk away from them because you're not gonna be 158 00:10:12,840 --> 00:10:16,000 Speaker 1: spitting on me the whole dog on town. Teeth, keep 159 00:10:16,120 --> 00:10:19,160 Speaker 1: food and marsh you in your mouth, along with your lips. 160 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:21,160 Speaker 1: When you just got your lips, a lot of stuff 161 00:10:21,160 --> 00:10:25,640 Speaker 1: get out. Then you got to say words like tonight? 162 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:29,600 Speaker 1: How you say tonight without no damn teeth? Tonight? Now 163 00:10:29,640 --> 00:10:34,560 Speaker 1: here comes some more damn spit. I was willing to 164 00:10:34,559 --> 00:10:37,000 Speaker 1: overlook that because we had a great vibe and a 165 00:10:37,040 --> 00:10:41,680 Speaker 1: lot in common that was in conversation. Girl. We went 166 00:10:41,679 --> 00:10:44,280 Speaker 1: out a few more times, and I was so embarrassed 167 00:10:44,320 --> 00:10:47,000 Speaker 1: by him. Then he said that he go to other part. 168 00:10:47,280 --> 00:10:49,520 Speaker 1: It'd be close to a year before he could get 169 00:10:49,600 --> 00:10:51,920 Speaker 1: his tooth and playing, because there was a glitch in 170 00:10:52,040 --> 00:10:59,000 Speaker 1: his ensuing, a glitch in the issuing. A year, he 171 00:10:59,120 --> 00:11:01,680 Speaker 1: find up center there the ragged ass mouth for a year. 172 00:11:02,920 --> 00:11:07,880 Speaker 1: I sail my car, I say my house, I say 173 00:11:08,120 --> 00:11:11,680 Speaker 1: my damn clothes. I'm gonna get me some damn teeth. 174 00:11:11,960 --> 00:11:14,000 Speaker 1: What I'm not fit to do is be walking around. 175 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:18,680 Speaker 1: And you already said the man ugly and now he 176 00:11:18,760 --> 00:11:21,480 Speaker 1: got a ragged ass mouth, and he went in to 177 00:11:21,559 --> 00:11:25,439 Speaker 1: wait a year. Man, I'm taking out a loan. I'm 178 00:11:25,480 --> 00:11:29,480 Speaker 1: going down at the ever smile or or Ditcher bright 179 00:11:29,640 --> 00:11:37,320 Speaker 1: or smile brighter, happy teeth, a doctor heavenly smile. Now 180 00:11:37,760 --> 00:11:40,880 Speaker 1: I'm going to corrective denches. I'm going down to the 181 00:11:40,960 --> 00:11:44,280 Speaker 1: VA office. Somebody gonna get me some damn teeth. I'm 182 00:11:44,320 --> 00:11:46,360 Speaker 1: gonna go down there to the morgue. I'm gonna go 183 00:11:46,400 --> 00:11:50,400 Speaker 1: somewhere somebody got some teeth. Day and not for no year, 184 00:11:50,679 --> 00:11:53,160 Speaker 1: not for no year. I can't be no year with 185 00:11:53,160 --> 00:11:56,880 Speaker 1: out no damn play. I was honest with him, and 186 00:11:56,960 --> 00:12:01,160 Speaker 1: then I told him that I it's a turn off 187 00:12:01,160 --> 00:12:04,040 Speaker 1: to kiss a man without teeth. Now, hell no, because 188 00:12:04,080 --> 00:12:06,400 Speaker 1: it's all up in that. Now, your tongue just loose. 189 00:12:07,400 --> 00:12:09,760 Speaker 1: It's just loose. You have to roof, you have to bottom. 190 00:12:09,760 --> 00:12:13,120 Speaker 1: You's a tongue. It's just just like sticking your tongue 191 00:12:13,120 --> 00:12:16,280 Speaker 1: in a log. That ain't a kiss. You're kissing a log, 192 00:12:16,440 --> 00:12:22,439 Speaker 1: just a big hollow ass log. Yeah. Now I broke 193 00:12:22,440 --> 00:12:24,680 Speaker 1: it off with him, and he still calls to say 194 00:12:24,720 --> 00:12:27,040 Speaker 1: he misses me. I miss him too, But he still 195 00:12:27,080 --> 00:12:29,640 Speaker 1: don't have his teeth. So I met another guy, and 196 00:12:29,720 --> 00:12:32,480 Speaker 1: it's slightly older than me. Oh lord, you already for 197 00:12:32,600 --> 00:12:37,839 Speaker 1: the slightly older me old as head. On our first date, 198 00:12:37,880 --> 00:12:41,440 Speaker 1: he took his false teeth or partials out of his mouth, 199 00:12:41,640 --> 00:12:44,319 Speaker 1: put it in napkin. He said, he rubbed his guns, 200 00:12:44,480 --> 00:12:46,880 Speaker 1: and he only puts it in on special occasion. So 201 00:12:46,920 --> 00:12:50,080 Speaker 1: now right here, you ain't a special occasion. Now you 202 00:12:50,160 --> 00:12:52,640 Speaker 1: got another poe ass man that they bought the wrong 203 00:12:52,840 --> 00:12:55,840 Speaker 1: damn teeth. He might get some new teeth in a year, 204 00:12:56,080 --> 00:12:58,079 Speaker 1: and then he can't just take your teeth. Man, get 205 00:12:58,120 --> 00:13:01,240 Speaker 1: out of here, by all right, thank you, Steve, We 206 00:13:01,400 --> 00:13:04,400 Speaker 1: get it. Post your comments on today's Strawberry Letter at 207 00:13:04,400 --> 00:13:06,960 Speaker 1: Steve Harvey FM, on Instagram and Facebook, and check out 208 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:10,160 Speaker 1: the Strawberry Letter podcast on demand now. Coming up at 209 00:13:10,160 --> 00:13:12,640 Speaker 1: forty six minutes after the hour, we'll have more of 210 00:13:12,679 --> 00:13:16,360 Speaker 1: the Steve Harvey Morning Show right after this. You're listening 211 00:13:16,559 --> 00:13:18,439 Speaker 1: to the Steve Harvey Morning Show.