Jury Duty

Ahhhh...the dreaded 'jury duty'...you get your little card in the mail and most think 'ugh...this sucks', but me, I think 'saweeet! a day off from work and maybe something interesting that doesn't involve MY life sucking!' haha...at any rate... I went today, it was boring, we did nothing, I didn't get picked, nobody did and we all went on our merry ways in the frigid cold to our cars awaiting our parking tickets, and alas, no interesting day for me! I felt the need to write about it though, because first of all, the jury officer (I think that is what he was called) has been in his position for about 17 years and he STILL can't speak English well! Some of what he was saying was a struggle for me to understand, and I just don't get it...he was nice...but anyway, he and the judge that spoke with us kept talking about bringing us down from our 'high panic' to a 'normal comfort' ...I'm like, okaaaay...of course I was a little nervous about what could come, and I'm sure that others were as well, but do you really need to repeat yourself a bagillion times...by two people at that? Also, the judge kept going on about how it is a priveledge and a right and blah blah...funny how they forget to mention that if you don't show up or reschedule or whatever other options they give that they will HUNT YOUR ASS DOWN AND THROW YOU IN JAIL!! lol...Don't try to talk it up about what a great civil liberty and true democracy when you are going to make their lives even more miserable if they don't show up...it's a requirement...bleh... --Me