Jury Duty

Well Jury Duty was a bust. When I arrived at the court house there was a huge line to get in through security. Everyone was standing in an orderly line and it was moving fairly quickly. It was freezing cold though. Some court employees tried to either organize the line or get it moving faster but all they did was succeed in turning the orderly line in a big mess. One of them mentioned that there was another entrance so I headed off around the building and found the rear entrance. There was still a line there but it was much shorter. I then proceeded to wait in the Jury room. They call you by number and mine was 1291. After they had called up through about 950, they said they had no more requests for juries and if no requests were made by lunch the rest of use could go home. No more juries were called so I got to leave a little after noon. My whole jury experience involved standing in the cold and then sitting around for 4 hours. The only thing that could have been better was if I had been called in on the very first jury. Somehow thier case got dismissed right after they were called up, so they all got to go home around 10:30.