In a message dated 5/14/2006 5:54:02 PM Eastern Daylight Time, "Michael" writes: This was very much the case at the old Plastic Fantastic store in Bryn Mawr (and later Ardmore).  I worked there with some incredibly cool people except for the complete a-hole owner Harold Gold.   Horrible. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> oooh yeah! i was just talking about PF with Scot Sax of Feel (shameless plug #23456, as i desgned their new cd)...i had forgotten about that store, as I discovered it after I'd already moved to Boston, but MAN, I remember a surly person or two working there......amazingly, i can't think of too many places in Boston that stand out for crap help, tho the old Second Coming near Harvard Square had some assholes, and I can recall some cretins at times at Looney Tines on Boylston Street (tho not the guy from Human Sexual Response and the Zulus who worked there)........ jim (who bought his first Rickenbacker 12 string in 1984, later to be stolen, at the the old LaSalle Music next to Jacks Drum Shop, where the old drummer from Stories, Bryan Madey, used to work!!)