How un beliveable this is…..the question “How would you react?”. The simplest way to have handle it was to tell her that the seat was your daugthers, once she became stubborn, you should have offered to switc seats and have your daughter face the wall.
This was a great opportunity to teach your daughter that there are times that even though we are in the “right’, the right thing to do is show derech eretz to others. What you have shown your daughter is simply that when I am right, I am right and nothing is more important than that! Our generation (I am in my 40’s with enough chiildren to observe this) is becoming the ME FIRST generation. What I need, How I feel, I come first etc. is becoming the norm.
The woman was in her 60’s….for goodness sake coudlnt you just give her the seat??? And to the poster that insists that you were simply standing up for your rights is probably the same guy that makes a U-Turn in middle of traffic on Avenue J because he saw a spot on the other side of the street.