Right? I'm totally with you. If you have to put on a different face to the people you know, you're being fake! OP's attacker sounds like a deer in the headlights! "Oh shit, she's seen my true form!" Guys, if you're an asshole, don't practice covering that shit up. Practice not being an asshole, and whatever you are, own it. If she's afraid of dogs or whatever her deal is, this is the part where rude lady should own up and aplogize, not simply try to pretend something like that didn't just happen.

In retail, 90% of the job is putting on a fake smile and making your customers forget that you're a real human being with feelings, a life outside work, friends, and family... just so they can go on pretending that the world is a wonderful place to spend their money in.

#90 Sad but true

Or she's a rude bitch and op's response was well deserved.

The only difference between the dog and the child is that one was adopted and the other was given birth to. Both require love, care, and attention. I have a kid and a dog and I'll be damned if someone would get away with insulting either of them.

And the only other difference is one of them is actually a DOG.

#62, some ppl think of their dogs as childern.

57, the difference is that the child understood OP's insult, while OP's dogs did not understand the woman's insult. The mother was the one being rude; it was absolutely uncalled for to lash out at the kid who hadn't done anything wrong.

the dog hadn't done anything wrong either by the looks of the story. 57 was only trying to say that some people have different views on their animals and children

57- I never said it was okay for her to insult your dog. Heck, I have a dog too, and anybody insulted him, there would be hell to pay. I just said that If someone insults your dog, insult the person directly, and not their kid, who had nothing to do with it.

So cussing in front of a child is better than calling them dirty? Kids are dirty, I doubt it hurt their feelings. I would be more upset that I didn't get to pet the dogs