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Is that the shop known as...
Is that the shop known as AIDS you go down steps into it ?
There was aguy there years ago who I believe was called Virgil and he was rude in the extreme to my wife and I when we went there.I have to say though that the shops stock was incredible.

Killian
If Virgil was rude to me or my wife I don't give a damn how nice a store he has.
I would tell him to go to hell and don't come back..
No Virgil should be rude to a customer

He knew we were not there to...
He knew we were not there to buy as we were both in our early twenties and looked like two white Irish kids with no money so he chose to be rude because thats obv what you do to people who really like your shop and compliment you on it ;0 )

i still would have told hi...
i still would have told him to go to
hell ,
Some of the richest people I know look like they have nothing. You Know you can not judge a book by its cover.

if he was rude i still w...
if he was rude i still would have told him to go to hell !!!! He did not know if you were rich or not so rich ,
some of the wealthiest people i know tend to be rather schleppy sometimes,
I just hate those shopkeepers that think they are something and they are not...I have dealt with them to many times, and the worst ones have booths and hang out at Antique Shows .... they are the worst

oops
Oops. This was supposed to be a response to the thread of someone looking for shops in NYC but I accidentally started a new thread. My bad. Anyway, the lady at AIDS was very nice to us but since we were two young trashy looking 20-somethings, a lot of the 1st dibs type stores didn't even say hello when we walked in or acknowledge that we were there. A few of the shops were insanely nice and those are the ones we would return to if we ever planned on buying anything at New York prices.

hey...i originally posted...
hey...i originally posted the thread wanting to know about shops in NYC...thanks for the reply...i went to that shop last time i was there (2001) i remember that fat guy, he was quite rude to us too unlike the rest of the locals...