I think ALL OF THIS is a BB version of a crowd mentality. It's a little scary... I'm wondering if we all lived where HD does, and we were sitting together in a meeting room having this exact same conversation, would the emotions running rampant here send us all out the door, after Mrs. HD with axes and pitch forks?
I don't think Mrs. HD threatened HD's children either, and I think, in the past, she's done quite a bit to help HD with them. The woman is contributing to the college education.
Do I think her saying that out loud to HD was appropriate? He!! no. But that IS rather my point.
Calm down people, no one is getting lynched today, as far as I can tell.