Okay, I was in TGI Friday's in Torrance tonight at 23420 Hawthorne Blvd, Torrance, CA 90505. Around 7:30pm tonight, a man came in with his girlfriend, wearing Google Glass. His was fitted to his prescription glasses, and his girlfriend was not wearing them. Okay, this was interesting. When he walked in, I did not see or notice this couple. But I heard raised voices near the door and looked over and saw three or four patrons standing in the walkway inside the restaurant preventing the couple from going into the restaurant to sit down. A fouth person, a man, yelled across the room "Get the F%$@ out of here wearing those F#@$ing glasses before I knock them off your F$@#ing face!" (this is happy hour, folks!). The guy, a smallish Asian guy, looked visibly startled, and the security guy came over and asked them to leave the restaurant. They left. But the restaurant does not have any visible Google Glass ban that I could find.
For an hour afterwards, I heard people talking about Google Glass and heard everything from defence of them to jokes about wearing them during sex or putting them under a table to film up skirts to threats of violence if ever confronted with somebody wearing them.
Wow.
They are banned in the gym in the building where I work. They are banned in the office where I work. They are banned at my barber shop. They are banned at my local 24-hour Fitness and in the bathrooms and changing rooms on South Redondo Beach. Many stores and most restaurants are officially banning them in Riviera Village.
I do not think Google Glass will ever find a warm reception no matter where they are worn, but I am seeing people wearing them now. Anyway, I am making a sign to ban them in my home and I will not allow them to be worn in my personal spaces like my car. I will not have a casual conversation with somebody wearing them either. I just dont want them around me at all. I thought this was funny:
How does anybody not see why they would cause some people to become very upset if you are wearing them?