Your mother seems ginuinely surprised when people tell her things certain things don't grow on trees. - OR - Your mother thinks everything grows on trees. Literally.
This about sums it up... and allows me to post a clip from my favorite sports movie of ETERNITY. We got a unique game plan each day, and if we followed it, we achieved our goal. Some were disappointed, disappointing, and disappoinments. Others succeeded as they were expected, they had hoped, or had never dreamed.
We had BADASS test scores. We read more than ever before. We attempted college level work and successfully completed college readings - ninth and tenth grades. Hopefully, we've had the kind of experience we won't forget.
At lunch yesterday I was with some people who attended universities even farther south than mine. So far down south, in fact, that you can see the bottom. And what an unsightly bottom it can be! An offhand comment was made about alternative names for the Civil War from the southern view point. Possibly, I was in one of those unique moods where I an easily offended. "War of Sucession" does nothing for me, but I was significantly irked by "The War of Northern Aggression" mention. I promptly interjected that people using these terms are closet racists. To me, it's interesting that people find the time to mask their motives in these ways. Who uses those terms?
Later I thought it would be nice to come up with some sound counterpunches to these offenses. Quick research came up with the response from the North. "War to Save the Union" and "Slaveholder's War" are my two favorites. I'll eventually come up with some of my own.
Your mother's girth percludes her from being inked the span of her back due to the proprietor of the establishment lacking the requisite amount of ink.