If she really couldn't afford the candy that would have been a nice gesture, but if she was just saying that so her kid would stop asking she could have found a nicer way to tell you no. Im not sure why women have this sense of entitlement that they can slap or physically assault men with no repercussions you should have slapped her back for being a bitch.

Politeness is becoming a rare thing, so it is often misinterpreted.

I would live it id someone bought me a chocolate bunny! Lmfao jk bt wow what a rude mom you were just trying to be nice! Screw her!:)

so much for being generous

Never ever ever offer anything directly to a kid. They get excited and you've just robbed the parent of the chance to make a parenting choice (without looking like a bad guy). ALWAYS offer the gift to the parent first and let them give it to the kid. Doesn't matter what the gift is, the parent might have a good reason to keep it away from their kid. You don't have the right to step on that.

Parents these days can be super overprotective, but I wouldn't recommend buying something for a child that you don't know, OP

You're undermining her authoritah!

You really have no right to offer to buy some stranger's kid something, especially if the parent doesn't ask you or give their consent first. So the parent is not a douche, OP is.

People these days are just plain rude. You should have reported her people shouldn't be able to get away with things like that

While that was really rude of the mom to do, you should have asked her before you bought the bunny. The mother could have had a good reason for not buying the chocolate, but didn't want to fully explain to her daughter, so the "not enough money" excuse had to do.