Leash Law Hawaii? Come on!

[Aki]

In reply to your question: "should I have done something different?" Perhaps you could have asked for a manager or the pharmacist to ask the man to leave the store with his (non-seeing-eye) dog. That way it wouldn't be you directly involved in the exchange. I am not shy to back down from a confrontation but I have always regretted 'upping the ante' in a stranger-shopping-parking situation. Whether it's someone taking the spot that I had waited patiently for or someone hovering within inches of my bumper (until I jammed on my brakes and then he was even closer!) it's been an immediate ramp-up of anger and threats that I realized later could have turned violent. I was in over my head and lucky I didn't come out of it with some sort of assault situation.

I can appreciate your upset and anger particularly with being so close to the incident; however, with your child in your arms, nothing is worth or worse than a situation getting out of hand!