No offense if I've misread "mothers"
None taken.
My poorly constructed sentence was in reference to the mothers of my grandkids.
On that note, several years ago now I laughed 'til I nearly cried at a performance that one of my granddaughters put on. She was scolding her younger sister for some transgression known only to five-year-olds. It's not so much what she said, as how. One hand clinched to a hip, the other resembling the rise and fall of a revolver's barrel as it's fired, she glowered at her kid sister and sneered in a gutteral voice, "and I MEAN it!".
Thought her Dad was gunna swallow his cud, and couldn't help but roar as my daughter turned red as beet.
