Jury Duty: it's like traveling without going anywhere

It's that waiting in an airport, waiting for something to happen baaaaalooooos.
A How To Guide for Potential Jurors in CT

Sit in a big room with lots of people who don't talk to each other.
Watch Civic Duty one-oh-one movies with slo-mo flags and Appalachian Spring playing in the background.

Sit in big room with lots of people who are talking to each other a bit more--
and wait
Drink many cups of complementary coffee with powdered creamer--
and wait
Take elevators and march through corridors to smaller rooms,
following the clerk who walks too fast.
Sit in smaller room and wait and listen to names of lawyers, lawyers' clients, etc. etc. etc.--
and wait
and wait

Repeat second verse, two times from 8:15 am-5 pm, emphasis on first two lines.

Yah! They didn't want me! They said, "pfah, throw that Rothwell back into the pool" twice.
Never even got to voir dire.

Highlight of the day: Reading a fabulous novel that most of YOU can't read yet, neener neener. It's about artistic types, the sort of people who usually give me a pain in the side. Not these two, or at least not often, and even when they did, I still enjoyed them (wanted to kick them, but that's okay). Dayum, I loved reading that book. That's two unpubbed books in a row that I've liked better than most of the published books I've read lately.

Comments

  1. Carrie Lofty9:04 AM

    I wanted to kick them too, but without a villain, it was either have them be difficult or have them sit around an play whist all day....

    ReplyDelete
  2. Anonymous9:15 PM

    Thanks.

    I think.

    ReplyDelete

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