I would have came totally unglued on that dude.
By the time I got through with him his ego, IQ and masculinity would have been a whimpering pile of jello!
I guess I should be hung and quartered because I dared
comment once years ago that my DD (who had colic) had kept me awake, walking and holding her for a week!
Years ago when my son was about 6 years old, we were in Sears and he was being a little butthead....running under the clothing racks and back and forth. I grabbed him and warned him to settle down and stop that nonsense or else! A minute or so later he shoots under one of the clothing racks again and when he came out, I was standing on the other side waiting for him. I spun him around and swatted his backside with my hand and was about to swat him a second time for trying to bite my arm when this woman, a complete stranger, grabs my wrist and yells at me "Don't you dare beat that child again"!
I turned to look at her, still holding the kicking and now screaming child and she backed away a step. Then I totally went off.
I told her that the last time I checked that the child I SMACKED was MINE! I continued with, I smacked the ass that I made and did not beat him...I will not tolerate him not doing as I tell him to and if you think you are so Fing great as a mother...TAKE HIM! I shoved my son at her and she backed away and said she was getting a manager. This is where it gets funny!
She comes back with the manager in tow and tells him I beat my son and was preparing to do so again. the manager asks me what was going on and I said "He would not listen and was running under the clothing racks knocking stuff down and I warned him...then i smacked his ass and then this psycho woman assaults me and puts her hand on me so it got ugly and she got you" and then I looked at her and sneerred and slowly turned to the manager and said "Sorry she bothered you Daddy" The Manager aka my father turned and looked at my son and said "Boy, I will tear you up if you do not behave yourself".
The woman stormed out of the store and I was really wanting to follow her and give her the beating she accused me of giving my son.
You handled it sooooooooooo much better than I would.