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The wife and I were away from Lynchburg from Christmas eve until New Year's Day in Ohio and West Virginia. Since Ohio's firearm law pre-emption is currently being challenged and since West Virginia's firearm law pre-emption is incomplete with regard to OC I only OCed at the parent's place. While in the Barborsville Mall (Huntington, WV) we saw an older gentleman OCing with what was likely his grand-daughter. We both were quite glad to see OC in WV and look forward to the day when the pre-emption is full in that state.
On Friday evening I OCed without incident at the local Olive Garden. Saturday we headed over to the local mall (no OC there) and then OCed without incident at the local Best Buy, Sam's Club, Texas Roadhouse (wife OCed here) and Barnes & Noble.
Today the wife and I headed over to a new favorite spot for lunch, The Blue Dahlia, where I OCed as usual. As we walked in a scruffy looking new young man greeted us quite rudely with a comment about me carrying and filling me in that I'd freak all kinds of people out. I told him that I'd been carrying this way for 4 years without any issue (it's actually been 5) and he left our presence and headed over to talk to Mike, the owner. I have no idea if he asked about my gun carry or not, but he didn't mention it again. "Attitude" has never been on the menu at the Blue Dahlia any other time we've gone and other than this young man serving us a side of it, everyone else was peachy sweet and helpful. Mike, the owner, came over and chatted with us like always and I didn't bring up the issue with the new guy choosing to see if this was an isolated incident. When we paid the check the scruffy young guy had changed his 'tude to peachy sweet and we left with no further incident. Afterward we headed over to the local Home Depot where I OCed without incident again. While there, however, I saw one of the managers from work who I'm pretty sure saw my sidearm, but made no mention of it, but greeted me cordially just the same. May OC some later for dinner tonight, but right now the laundry calls as does my mug of home brewed Tim Horton's coffee. Mmmmm, coffee!