Biting my head off for no reason

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I went to the grocery store with my niece today. We only picked up a few items and I was letting my niece hold the milk because she wanted to help. We were standing in line waiting to be checked out and this lady comes up behind us and pushes her cart into my niece. My niece falls forward and drops the milk. Luckily, it did not break. I bend down to help her up and to pick up the milk and the lady who hit my niece starts yelling at me. She yells, "Why were you not watching your little girl! Why did you let her get in my way!" I look at her and say, "She was standing next to me when you ran her over with your cart, how is that in your way? If anything you need to watch where you are going." Now this lady starts to get really mad and shouts, "I have every right to push my cart up to this check out line! It is not my fault your kid is too small to see! You need to take better care of her!" By this time the manager is walking up and asking what the problem is, I explained that we were standing in line when the lady came up behind us and ran my niece over with her cart. Lady keeps shouting and carrying on about how I am distorting what happened and she made it sound as if I was letting my niece run around everywhere. Only one person from the line next to us, spoke up and backed up what I said earlier. When that happened the lady got so mad she took her cart and tried to ram the other person with it. I couldn't believe it! Then the manager looks at me and says, "I think it would be best if you left the store." My jaw dropped, I said, "I'm not the one causing a scene she is." The manager then tells me if I don't leave she won't stop yelling. I looked that manager right in the eye and said, "She assaulted my niece I want the cops here, I'm going to press charges." As soon as I said that the lady stopped yelling, left her cart and walked out the store. After she left, I looked at the manager and said, "Are you still demanding that I leave even though I did nothing wrong?" He said, "No." I responded, "Well too bad, I am leaving and I'm going to tell everyone I know not to shop here any more. If anyone should have been asked to leave it should have been that harpy that started all this." As I left the person who stood up for me and my niece left without purchasing her items either. I thanked her on the way out for sticking up for us. How crazy is that? Have people really lost their minds to the point where they honestly think everyone is just in their way or lieing? I have to wonder if that lady was having a bad day or if she has some mental issue or phsyical issue. But still that is no reason to act like that and to top it off for the manager to act as if I was the one at fault and telling me to leave instead of the lady. It's a good thing my niece wasn't badly hurt, just a bruise on her knee. No, I didn't call the cops but makes me wonder how often that lady does this, that when the cops are mentioned she bolts.