Jury Duty #1

My concerns about what to wear, getting in early, what I’d say in the voir dire…were all useless! We never even made it into the courtroom. I was at least selected to go upstairs from the jury assembly area, but we just sat around outside courtroom 5G for about an hour while the parties involved - we’d seen them go in - talked amongst themselves, and then we were told by the deputy to go back downstairs to the assembly room. I played my CSI computer game for about half an hour (the modem connections mentioned on the jury website were not functioning, and the wifi access won’t be up until next month) and then listened with amusement as the clerk attempted to locate the one guy who hadn’t returned and was preventing the rest of us from leaving. He finally turned up and we were all released more than an hour earlier than we’d been told we might be set free.

I called A and offered to drive out to where she works for lunch. It’s completely out of the way from anywhere I’d normally go in my free time, but traffic will be easy at this time of day and it will be fun to have lunch with her. After that I have to head back home and go to Jiffy Lube and do a few other errands and chores around the house. It turns out I have to request next Tuesday off work as well, though, just in case my group is called back.

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