Today I had to take the kids to the pool for their swimming lessons.  At this particular pool, there are no signs prohibiting cel-phone or camera use (there are at other pools we have visited, but this ones a little more realistic).

We had a parent (or possibly student) show up at the pool wearing Glass.  He took a look around, removed them and stowed them carefully in his backpack.

This wasn’t a necessary thing, its the kind of pool where meets and polo matches and other events are held with some regularity, so there is no overt restriction on cameras or recording devices.  Its entirely possible he was concerned with the cloud of chlorine that invariably surrounds a body of man-maintained water, or getting thrown in the pool by the Polo team, or some other reason than how the people around him feel about Glass.

Glass is not a standalone device.  It’s a peripheral, like your Bluetooth earbud, so removing it, while annoying, will not stop you from using your phone, or from receiving phone calls.  I suspect it can get as annoying as wearing an earbud *all* the time.

It was the gesture that caught my attention.  This individual came across as someone who is *using* Glass, not as someone who views Glass as the inalienable right to be wired up all the time, not as a way to show off how tech-savvy he was, but someone who is using it as the tool it was designed for and putting it back in the toolbox when he didn’t need it.

So, unknown Glass user, this week I’m going to label you as #glasstastic. Compared to the gal with the moving violation and the guy who got ranty at a restaurant, you might not be as sexxy a news story, but you are a better example of Glass users for the rest of us.