...What?

I was just at the park with Moxie. She was running around playing, as puppies do, enjoying herself immensely, and I was sitting on the bench with a book. Now, this is primarily a dog park and is always full of dogs running around playing - so you don't go in this park and expect to not deal with any dogs coming to say hello, and therefore I always get annoyed when people complain about it.

Anyway, this woman enters the park with her (I'd guess about five year old) son. Walks past me up the path and Moxie runs over to say hello, as she does to everyone, as most dogs do in this park to everyone. Doesn't bark or growl or jump up or anything, just runs over to them, crouches down in playful puppy position, then runs off again back to me. Little kid gets scared and moves towards his mother for protection. Mother, rather than comforting her child and reassuring him that everything's alright and it's just a puppy and not going to hurt him, turns around and shouts at me, "If that things comes near me again I'm gonna boot it in the face, keep your fucking dog on a lead!"

I could only stare at her in shock. Then brought Moxie home as I was quite scared for her safety.