monkeys and ponies

I don't know to whom you're talking, but Gus was always a prince to me and to BS-squared (and we were not the easiest people to be nice to). The Tech did numerous promotions with Toscanini's, and I'd get a big hello and friendly conversation anytime I visited if Gus was in the back (and if I were in town long enough, he'd make me a batch of White Chocolate, my favorite). BS-squared said it seemed to him that Gus's heart wasn't in it the past few years, but he seemed his old self to me last year (he was talking about advising on a new store to open on Atlantic Ave. in Brooklyn, but I never heard more about it).