Summary for the week. Tuesday or so I walked to the co-op to pick up a few things, no issues.
Thursday went to an art exhibition at the Corvallis Art Center, my fiancee was talking to the people who helped organize it who said they "were watching the guy carrying the huge gun on his hip," to which she replied, "Oh, that's my fiance, he's harmless." They supposedly chilled out a bit after that. I eventually meandered over to talk to one of the organizers and made some small talk, none of which was about my "huge gun". I don't consider a Glock 22 to be huge personally. Afterwards went out for some Korean food downtown at Amatsu. No issues.
Last night went out for pizza, sat in the middle of the restaurant (Fireworks) and had excellent service and listened to some music before heading home. No issues.
This morning I swindled my friend (who was also carrying) into helping me pick up some trash along 3rd street where I had noticed there was quite a bit accumulated. We spent 30 or so minutes and filled two big trash bags to the brim. Had to leave some trash behind since there was so much, I'll be back for it later. No issues.
After that my friend asked me if I wanted to walk down and check out this Middle Eastern grocery store in South Corvallis. I agreed as long as we could stop by the gun store so I could see that used guns were for sale. We were there for a while, no issues, friendly service. On the way out of the strip mall we walked right next to a Corvallis PD patrol car. Within a block he passed us and pulled into a driveway. I immediately groaned and got my voice recorder out.
Poor audio and my attempt at transcription is here. He approaches us (we're still both carrying) and begins with what we're doing is legal and said he wasn't detaining us or anything just wanted to know why we're open carrying because he's never seen it before. I figure I would play the advocate role instead of the silent role since he's clearly trying to be friendly. We chat a bit and shake hands and I get his name (Officer Michael Withington i believe) and give him my first name. Good encounter, right?
We continue on our way to the grocery store and look around and pick up a couple of things. Then on the way back a police officer drives by and then a few minutes later he makes a left in front of us and pulls into a parking lot and gets out and this time I'm thinking this is stupid. We had parted on good terms and here he is to have another "consensual" encounter. He asks for our names because his Sergeant wanted to let his officers know about us. We decline and part ways.
My friend went back to the gun store afterwards to pickup something that caught his eye and the workers there said the officer stopped in there after we didn't give our names to ask if they knew our names. The officer gave his card to the gun store and said that they should call him if we come back. A complaint will be filed.