Mist,
my friend's mum is a very extreme person. it's her mother's personality. actually she is a very difficult person and i think for some years, the mother actually left the family.. i heard bits and pieces from my friend. i remember the last extreme thing, my friend was driving, her son and mother in the car. Then i think they quarrelled in the car.. her mother insisted that she be dropped off, even tho they were on the expressway! And i think she really threatened to jump off the car or something, so my friend had no choice but to let her mother alight in the middle of PIE!
Then when she drove off, her son kept crying for po-po.. and so my friend also feeling bad, made a u-turn back to the highway.. but she can't find her mother liao.. apparently in the end, her mom flag down a taxi (on the highway!).. and what is amazing is that, her mother when she insist on alighting, she didn't even take her handbag.. so the mother had no wallet, no handphone, no bag.. she just flag down a taxi to go back to her house or something where her husband is at home..
I think my friend.. her family has learnt to live with their 'weird' mother.. they just can't do anything about her so they leave her be.. she is actually quite a compassionate lady, as in she does volunteer work with cancer patients in hospital etc.. but she has a very extreme nature.