ok, so i finally came up with the mean mamma chant-------it came to me in a flash driving home from church based on the oral discourse.....meanmammagetsherwaymeanmammagetsherwaymeanmammagetsherway.........i guess you had to be there.......of course,mean mamma got her way only on the smallest of issues, but it was her way, nonetheless.......

i oversaw (not overheard) a troubling interchange between a friend and her college-age daughter in an suv stopped at a traffic light- the mother was obviously screaming at the daughter, along with hand gesticulations, while the daughter simply hung her head......the interchange was a wake-up call for my future...there cannot be many instances so pressing that i must 'correct' a child in this sort of public display......certainly what has to be said can wait until you get home, and surely it can be said without theatrics.....