Have not posted any experiences in a while as for the most part everything has been routine with no one paying any attention that I carry. I do have 1 good experience to share and my first ever in the 3 or so years I have been carrying bad experience.
The good:
Was eating breakfast at Bojangles in K-Ville at 66 and B-40. One of the employees asked about my gun and he mentioned that he OC's until he turns 21 and can get his concealed carry. We talked guns and OC for a minute and then I went to eat my breakfast. I directed him to the site, hope he finds it. This happened a week or so ago.
Now the bad:
As I said this is the first negative carry I have had in the 3 or so year I have been OC'ing. I went to the Winston gun show yesterday with my dad. Afterwards he said we were going to stop at the whole foods to pick up some groceries. We got there and went in, did not see any gun buster sings on the door so went in. Walked around the whole store and was getting the last 2 items in the deli when an employee came up to me, not sure if she was a manager or not. The conversation below is as close to what I can remember.
Employee- I need to ask you to take your gun out of the store, your not allowed to have them here, there is a sign on the door.
Me-I'm sorry, I did not see the sign. Did anyone complained about me?
Employee-Yes, and it is against the law to carry in the store.
Me: There is no law that says I cannot carry in the store...
Employee: Well no one is allowed to carry in any of our stores per law and company policy.
Just to point out at this point she kinda interrupted as if she was clarifying a point about it being the law. She was mixing law and policy as if it was against the law to carry in grocery stores but she said it so fast and was hard to understand her due to the noise in the store and her accent that I did not hear and remember everything she said.
Me: There is no law saying that I cannot carry in the store, however you have the right to not allow anyone with a gun in your store and can ask them to leave.
Employee: Ok, if you could just take your gun outside for us.
Me: Ok.
She then proceeding to thank me for taking my gun outside. Now I know most all of you would have said here is the shopping cart, I will get it somewhere else. Due to my moms food allergies there are not many places locally where we can get some of the special foods she needs. MY dad proceeded to checkout while I took my gun out. On the way out I looked at the exit door and did not see a sign. On the way back in I looked at the door and did not see any sign. I spend a couple minutes looking at the door as there are probably 10 or so different stickers on the door. I finally noticed it, near the bottom of the door, in letters under a bunch of other statements in letters a No firearms or weapons allowed. The fact that I was told it was there and spent close to 2 minuets to find it should tell you how visible it was. Plus a couple of the letters were starting to peel off. After my dad checked out and we headed for the house for dinner, I think he became more enraged at it then I was. Lets just say my parents are now trying to find a different place to get the organic foods my mom eats though not many options locally.
My parents have been shopping there was several years, but it has been a couple years since I had been there. Seems like I remember OC'ing last time I was there but cannot remember for sure. I do want to point out that the employee was very nice in how she handled it, though confused or misinformed about the difference between story or company policy and law. I do plan on sending a email to the store manager as well as corporate though I do not suspect much coming from a company that got caught knowing selling products labelled organic that they knew were not. I will post any responses I receive here.
