I meant to post this last night, but it got late too quickly and 4 am comes too damned early for this old fart.
The daughter and I dropped my car off at the shop for repairs (service writer noticed my 1911A1, but said nothing), and she asked me if I'd run her up to Wal*Mart (in NU), so she could get a prescription filled (she followed me to the shop in my pickup).
Since it was warm out, I OC'd (too warm to wear a CG).
I needed some oil, so I walked in the store with her. She went to the pharmacy and I headed back to the automotive section.
One of the auto shop employees saw my 1911A1 and asked what I was carrying and we talked for a few minutes until he got paged and had to go.
On my way to the checkout, some guy with 2 young boys suddenly asks me, "Hey, how do you like that Serpa holster?"
We talked for a few minutes and he mentioned that he had just bought a Serpa for off duty carry, but had left it at home because he wasn't familiar with it. Turns out, he works for the Border Patrol up in the Baudette/International Falls area and was down here on vacation. He also mentioned that the BP is getting new holsters next year (can't remember what make/model). As we were going our separate ways, he says, "It's good to see someone carrying. I just wish more people would." 
Ran several other errands in New Ulm and Mankato and had no negative comments or reactions from others, until I got gas on my way outta Mankato. I stopped at the LQM (Hwy 60/169), to put $20 in the tank. As I was paying for my gas, the older woman behind the counter says, "Are you licensed to carry that?"
"Yes Ma'am, I am."
She says, "Well, I don't like guns" (but yet she works at a gas station in kind of a shitty part of town???
). Once my errands were done, I stopped by the Cashwise liquor store in NU for a bottle of my favorite libation. I heard the 4 girls behind the counter start talking as I walked by, but since one of them had just walked in, I figured that they were just greeting each other at a shift change or something. As I turned around to head for the counter with my bottle, one of them says, "Oh, he carries that all the time", and I notice one of the gals is looking kinda flushed. The girl that blushed has rang up my purchases before, so she's familiar with me, says, "You carry that all the time?" I said, "Yes Ma'am. Sometimes it's hidden, sometimes not and you've rang me up when I've carried both ways".
She's like,
"No way!"Me, "Yep, but one thing to remember, good guys carry their firearms in a holster, bad guys don't."
She replied, "Good point!"
All-in-all, it was a good day and had some good conversations with others about carrying, holsters and such.
