Jury duty?? I can't even run my OWN life!

I don't know how they pick people but I can't even decide what to wear some days. I don't know how they expect me to decide some other person's fate in front of a judge! Geez, not this week, it's been a bad week for me already.

I was told once it was the registered voters' list but my husband isn't even a citizen and he gets picked all the time.

I gotta go on Wednesday and it's an hour's drive at 6:30 in the morning!

Oh, well, maybe they'll settle......

Jury duty sucks. I've been called for it once, and the way it works up here is you're called for a week. You have to show up at the courthouse, and sit around waiting for trials that need juries, then whenever there was one, we'd all get trouped to the courtroon and have our names pulled from a machine. My name got called once, but one of the lawyers rejected me.

It was all frightfully boring. The only good thing was I was doing exams at the time, so all the sitting around between trials gave me lots of time to study.

Hope you don't get picked for a trial.

--splitimage

I used to get picked to serve all the time. My boss even thought I was just trying to get off work. Then I got myself removed from the selection list. My sister changed jobs and now her immediate family is exempt from jury duty. Helps to have a judge's employee in the family.
It is a very boring time and here you only get $10 a day. Not even enough to pay for the gas to get there.