Google Glass isn’t yet quite available for direct purchase, but the Google Explorer program is already in progress. Meaning that for selected elite users, those futuristic Glasses are now part of their everyday reality. And with it, comes a wave of funny stories and incidents – everything from people getting tickets for driving wearing Glass, to humorous nods by the competition.

Here’s a compilation of funny stories and incidents pertaining to the release and proliferation of Google Glass out in the urban wild.

Siri Flakes Google Glass

Have you noticed how Siri will throw around a bunch of funny quips whenever you mention Google Glass around it? If not, you may try it by mentioning the hotword “OK Google” when Apple’s virtual personal assistant is listening. Some of the responses you’re likely to hear on iOS 6 and upwards include : “I think that Glass is half empty”; “Just so you know, I don’t do anything when you blink at me”; “Stop trying to strap me to your forehead. It won’t work.”… and many other humorous nuggets on this vein.

Hotword trivia

Speaking of hotwords – at this point you probably know that “OK Google” is the chosen universal magic trigger that launches a Google search on command. If you haven’t heard it yet, rest assured it should become widespread really fast, especially since it is rumored that the latest version of Android OS will always be listening for this command, to allow hands-free operations.

Anyway, “OK Google” is actually a reasonably decent interjection that you can easily spout out at your phone without feeling retarded. But do you know what the tentative hot-words were? You can read the full story here, but suffice to say it feature such perky monikers as “pew pew pew”, “Glass alive”, “Device, please” or “Go, go, glass”… although this last one would actually be marginally cool to speak out loud.

Driving Ticket, Glass Edition

Yeah… we could see this one coming, and it was meant to happen sooner than later, with the eager legion of Google explorers running around with their Google Glass mounted over the face. Last month, the report arose of a woman in California who got a ticket for driving around wearing Glass. Even though she claimed the device was turned off, the police officer quoted a law that forbids a driver from having distracting monitors of any kind in their field of vision. Long story short, you must not drive wearing Google Glass, much in the same way that you must not drive holding your smartphone in hand.

Glass Captures Fight & Arrests

In other news, there’s also the recent report of a fight and arrest scenario that was filmed by someone wearing Glass. If the same person had tried to film said fight and arrest with his smartphone, he might not have succeeded in pulling off the shot without getting the attention of the fighters. Not quite in the world-saving category yet, but it does raise the idea that in certain occasions, this kind of gadget may allow recording footage that wouldn’t be easy to capture with conventional and less discreet devices.

Places that Banned Glass Before Arrival

Like the nice little polarizing technology it is, Google Glass already amassed a legion of enthusiasts that is rivaled only by the legion of disgruntled fear-mongers. You know; the kind of people who swear that Google Glass is the last drop in the establishment of modern age Big Brother. Courtesy of this group, there has been a fast growing list of venues that decided to ban Glass off their premises even before those gadgets go mainstream.

Typical examples of such bans include Banks and ATMs, Locker rooms and dressing rooms, sports arenas and concert venues, strip clubs, movie theaters, cars, classrooms, casinos, and bars. Actually that shouldn’t be surprising – since all those are places where it’s generally forbidden to catch pictures and videos using any device, no matter how covert or how obvious it happens to be.

And there you go, our first batch of Google Glass related trivia. OK Google — write in any other stories you know of down at the comments section, and stay tuned for subsequent articles expanding on this theme.