OP, apparently the fact that you didn't discipline your child in a public forum for the lady and the rest of the store to witness isn't good enough
. You really should have pulled her pants down right there and whipped her with the old lady's belt. I'm thinking that would make alot of people here very happy
I'm with you, your child may have been disrespectful to you, but that is between you and her, not the old lady in the store. I guess she never learned about minding her own business. Isn't it amazing how this behavior from old people gets excused time and time again, you know what being old doesn't give you a pass to be rude and disrespectful either. And yes, taking another child's discipline in their own hands while the parent is right there, IS disrespectful to that parent, no two ways about it.