I’ve told this story once before, here on CC…
Back in the 80’s I worked for a big corporation and traveled all the time.
I’d been out to dinner, and returned to my hotel room on Singer Island in Palm Beach Florida.
This 4-5 star hotel had a wide open lobby, with marble floors. Instead of wanting to feed a belt holster on for the short trip to my room, I took my Colt Stainless Combat Commander 45 out of the glove box and slide it inside my pants in the small of my back. My sport coat covered it.
As I was stepping into the elevator, the pistol dislodges, slides down my pant leg, and goes ker plunk on the marble floor. The whole lobby got quite, as I bent over to pick the 45 back up and returned it to the small of my back, and quickly stepped into the elevator.
One guy got on with me, and as the elevator was going up, he said “you a cop or something”, I replayed “or something”. He never said anything else and neither did I.
Moral of the story: no matter how short a distance you are traveling it’s always better to carry your pistol in a holster.