He slapped a defenseless child because they were just that, defenseless. Mean is a good word-Insane is probably a better one. I am curious as to what there was about this mom and child that made him think he could take that approach-maybe there wasnt anything about them, but I cannot fathom the idea that some stranger would walk up to me and slap a child of mine.
O/T An employee reprimanded one of my children in a card store once, although it was obvious that the child was with me. My child was close to me and picking something up-I am not being defensive, that is really all that happened. I asked the employee to speak to me instead of my child-well, apparently I hit whatever her buzzword or achilles heel there was-suddenly she was shrieking in my face, spitting and threatening to strike me-she called me curse words....it was surreal. I called the manager over and then the district manager-turns out she was mentally ill and living in a half way house. The half way house had obtained this job for her claiming she had people skills. Uh huh. Needless to say, they let her go and my children were given free webkinz as an apology for the scene she caused. They were petrified by this womans behavior-what I thought was even funnier was the behavior of the one male who was near by-instead of coming to my aid, he was frozen in place. It was lovely, lol.