Paris Hilton thrown out of grocery store for ramming cart into senior citizen!

[Madspirit]

Wednesday March 7 2007 14:35 IST

WASHINGTON: Hotel heiress Paris Hilton was reportedly ordered to
leave a grocery store by the shop’s manager, after a feud with an
aged lady customer.

It seems that Hilton asked the customer to stop blocking the aisle,
but the woman did not hear her.

The irritated ‘Simple Life’ star then rammed her cart into the
woman’s, and yelled that she was being rude and jamming her way.

“That's what you get for being rude and blocking the aisle,”
Hollywoodrag quoted Hilton, as telling the woman.

The shocked lady replied that she was being impolite by slamming
her cart into her. “You're the one who's rude, slamming me with
your cart,” the lady said.

The manager of the star intervenes and asked Hilton to leave the
place, if she cannot be courteous to people.

The 26-year-old left behind the shopped grocery items and walked
out of the store in a rage.

[Madspirit]

1. I hope this wasn't a duplicate

This fluff piece is OK for the lounge, right? <g> I'm embarrassed to feel aligned with Paris Hilton about anything but I just have to to say, I kind of hate it when people stand there blocking the isle like brain dead lumps, myself.
Lee

[SeattleGirl]

4. Except the article said the woman did not hear her, which is quite

plausible, if she was elderly. I hate aisle blockers too, but I will say, "Excuse me, I need to get by," and will then tap them on the shoulder to get their attention if they don't respond right away.

One time, I was in a store and was walking in a rather narrow area. This high school girl was walking toward me. I moved to my right -- natural for me because I'm right handed -- and she moved the same way (maybe she was left handed). This little twit kept walking right toward me, and then said "Move"! I said, "Oh, get over yourself" which made her flounce off and the other customers laugh their asses off at her.

:rofl:

[Madspirit]

11. Standing your ground!

Very cool, SeattleGirl!
Lee

[SeattleGirl]

13. Yep, I was, literally figuratively!

I live near a high school, so often run into kids with WAAAAAY to much attitude!

[havocmom]

28. Most hate it when someone blocks an aisle, but few get physically aggressive

Ms Hilton REALLY needs to progress out of her terrible twos and grow the fuck up.

Bravo to the manager who tossed her selfish ass out.

[Rabrrrrrr]

2. Oh, man, I can't tell you the number of times I wish I had the balls to do that to an aisle blocker.

Fucking morons.

I don't normally say it, but GOOD FOR YOU, PARIS!!

[petronius]

3. It's hard to know exactly what happened - but people that park themselves

in the middle of the aisle basically suck. So yeah: Way to go Paris!

[ronnykmarshall]

35. Oh please

If it involves that selfish little piece of shit, I'll side with the older lady.

Paris Hilton is a spoiled, arrogant little bitch.

[Rabrrrrrr]

36. She is that, indeed. But that still doesn't bely the fact that aisle blockers are selfish shits, too

[ronnykmarshall]

38. Yeah

Damn those old broads to hell!

[Madspirit]

10. Yeah...IF this is true

Never thought I would say...you go Paris! <g>

I guess I shouldn't be encouraging Shopper Rage but man, people who just park their carts right in the middle and stay there like lumps...just bug the hell out of me. Of course, the difference between Paris and me... I wouldn't really assault an elderly woman or anyone else. I just want to...<g>
Lee

[u4ic]

5. Paris Hilton GROCERY shopping???!?

:wtf:

[Richard Steele]

8. My thought as well. Seems rather implausable. nm

[qwertyMike]

6. You mean she goes to grocery stores?

Thought she would have her food delivered, or eaten out.

Maybe she was having a breakdown.

[Archae]

7. Source?

Just wondering, since it sounds like something from the National Enquirer.

[Madspirit]

9. hee

I was waiting for someone to ask me that. A friend just sent it to me. I'm with you guys also on...what was she doing with a shopping cart in a grocery store. I guess we will see if it's true or not.
Lee

[Archae]

14. Yahoo news-India.

http://in.news.yahoo.com/070307/139/6cxuy.html

:shrug:

[realisticphish]

12. I can almost hear "Dueling Banjos"

Paris Hilton and Britney Spears, competing for tabloid attention

[gbate]

15. I would have liked to see the old lady hit her with her cane.

[Maine-ah]

17. yep, no shit.

she's an old lady fer christs sake people! I wonder if people here would still be cheering that little twit, if it was their grandmother who maybe hard of hearing, that got hit. I know that if that happened to mine, the damage could have been bad. Like falling and breaking a hip bad.


now, since I'm in the lounge, and not GD, I will end my rant there....:)

[fudge stripe cookays]

42. I would have PAID to see that.

She could use a couple of swats.

What a selfish little brat.

[xchrom]

16. what's that old joke about a little old lady in hollywood trying to parallel park

her bentley -- and this young gal whips her miata in there instead --

the young lady hops out of the car and says --''that's what you can do when you're young and quick'' to the little old lady.

as she turns to walk away she hears a sickening crunch, smash, crunch -- and turns to see the little old lady backing her car into her miata repeatedly --

the little old lady says to the young lady --''and that's what you can do when you're old -- and rich.''

[Madspirit]

21. Actually

Your story is from Fried Green Tomatoes and it's Kathy Bates who rams the car of the youngsters...<g>
Lee

[TommyO]

23. "Face it girls, I'm older and have more insurance"

Kathy Bates as Evelyn Couch in Fried Green Tomatoes.

[distantearlywarning]

18. I'm shocked by this story.

Paris Hilton shops for groceries herself? :evilgrin:

[havocmom]

29. Or even uses groceries

;)

[bikebloke]

19. Witnessed

I was in a grocery story and this woman backed into another. She turned around screaming, "CAN'T YOU SEE?!!!". The other woman was blind with a white cane.

[BuelahWitch]

20. The old lady should sue the bitch

A simple "excuse me" works with most aisle blockers. I can't believe people are saying "Yeah Paris!" for beating up an old lady. Jesus!

[Madspirit]

22. She didn't

She didn't beat up an old lady. She rammed her cart. There is a difference. ...and I think people are being rather condescending and ageist saying old ladies can do whatever they want...<g>

I HATE isle blockers. They stand there like big ol' lumps, pretending they don't know they are blocking the entire isle and acting like because they have no better place to be no one else does either.

Once again...you go Paris!
Lee

[Pithlet]

24. I hate it when people block the isles

But I hate people who would ram their cart in retribution even more. There's no excuse for that kind of behavior. It's annoying when people block the isle, but I'm not going to let them get the best of me and become the kind of unhinged person who does that sort of thing. No one is perfect. Everyone has habits that annoy other people. It's a part of living among other human beings. Paris' behavior was far worse than isle blocking. The thing to do is mentally imagine in your head you're ramming the person, then suck it up and go back and around the isle. The extra exercise helps.

ETA there is nothing ageist about it. Paris is lucky she didn't knock the lady off balance and break her hip. Then she'd be looking at assault charges and a fat civil suit. Older people often can't hear as well, and are often frailer then younger people, and there's nothing ageist about keeping that fact in mind when deciding to act like a civil human being.

[Madspirit]

27. I wouldn't ram an old lady

I just think people are taking this far too seriously. ...and we don't know how old the lady was, now do we? If you're 20, someone 40 is an old lady. <g>

I agree, in reality, though I HATE people who block isles but in reality, I would never ram an old lady. I would glare at her.
Lee

[Pithlet]

31. That's why you're a better person than Paris Hilton

You have that inner part of you that knows what is decent and what isn't. She's apparently lacking that.

People are not taking it too seriously. It's not good to ram anyone, but most people eventually reach an age where they're obviously at the end of their lifespan and are frailer because of it. It's a fact of life. I think it takes a special kind of asshole to ram them with a cart, because the consequences can be deadly in the way they aren't with someone who's middle aged. And we do know how old she is. The article says she's a senior citizen. She's not young. She may have once been the kind of person who was considerate and didn't block the isle, but she got old. The synopses aren't firing like they used to, and she may not have been self aware enough to realize what she was doing. It's a good bet to assume that and not ram a cart into her, and Paris failed a test and exhibited her own self centered assholishness by failing to recognize that.

I'll admit, it was disquieting to see people cheering her on for that behavior. But, I think that people who think they don't have the guts to do what she did are really just people who are too decent and on some level are aware it isn't the right thing to do. That's a good thing.

[Madspirit]

37. I probably wouldn't even glare.

....but we really don't know how old the lady was.
Lee

[Madspirit]

39. BUT!

People are holding her to a different standard than they would a regular person. Maybe she was just being a jerky 20 something and it had nothing to do with a sense of Paris Entitlement. What if it had been Mary Jo Cupcake from Cupcake, Idaho? We might say she did wrong but we would not be so incensed.
Lee

[Pithlet]

40. I'd say anyone who rams their cart into someone, especially a senior citizen

because they wouldn't get out of the way has major problems. The fact that she's Paris Hilton got it into the news, for sure. But most people who are appalled at that would probably be shocked and angered if they witnessed a nobody doing the same thing. That's assuming it even happened. I'm one of those who thinks Paris Hilton shopping at a grocery store is just about as shocking as the incident. Unless she was slumming it, amusing herself by doing what the little people do.

[Madspirit]

41. You do have to wonder

What the heck she was doing at a grocery store. <g> That's the most amazing part of all this...

Lee

[havocmom]

30. Nobody said old ladies can do what they want. Some advocated good manners.

Giving consideration for the possibilities of age related infirmities and checking NICELY to see if the woman heard you is not giving a pass. Crashing into her cart could also mean a fall, if she was using it to steady herself.

Having once heard the gut wrenching sound of a human hip shattering when an elderly person fell, I can assure you, it is a horrible thing. We are not guilty of anything buy empathy and human kindness to offer a bit of patient communication before acting out with aggression.

'You go Paris' indeed. Paris needs to go for some SERIOUS therapy.

[BuelahWitch]

32. The point is she touched her

And if she "rammed" her with the cart there was some force behind the touch. Old people are fragile. Their bones break easily.
And no, I *don't* know the lady in question, but I have elderly relatives, and my Mom died at 70. If this bitch, or anybody, rammed her with their cart in the grocery store you bet I'd be going after their ass right now.
Aren't you the one who's all in up in arms about gay bashing in GD? But you advocate ramming little old ladies with carts? Isn't that somewhat hypocritical?

[VenusRising]

25. If I see a senior blocking the aisle I want to go down

I go down the next aisle and come in from the other side. I feel like I am the younger person and should give them the space they need. It doesn't cost me anything except maybe a few calories burned by walking the extra aisle, and that can't be a bad thing.

I will, however, say something to someone if they are on a cell phone or arguing with their children over sugary cereals or juice boxes and blocking the aisle.

[BuelahWitch]

33. You know what Venus, I do the same thing

If I'm in that big a hurry and I can turn around and go down another aisle, that's what I do.

[bullwinkle428]

26. Individual shoppers blocking aisles aren't a problem for me -

my REAL pet peeve is when two of them, each with their own cart, decide to have a little reunion in the aisle, completely blocking the way, and become so engrossed in their conversation that they're totally oblivious to the rest of the customers in the store just trying to finish their lists! :grr: :mad: I have to do the multiple throat-clears and "Excuse me!" to finally get their attention!

[ronnykmarshall]

34. God I hate that bitch.

I wish the woman would have knocked the shit out of that selfish fuck.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

43. Some people are aisle hogs and need their carts bumped now and then.