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I totally jinxed myself
Just last week while watching Law and Order with TH, I was asking him if he'd ever had jury duty. He hasn't, and I haven't either. I kind of made a comment on that; how it was nice to never be asked to do it.
Guess what came yesterday in the mail for me? A summons for jury duty this May. Gah! So how does this work? I filled out the questionnaire, but have a sheet that I'm to take with me to report to jury duty in May. I thought you had to call in to see if you had to report, but it doesn't say that anywhere on the sheet. It just says to take the form on such and such day to the courthouse at 7:45 a.m. There is an information 800#, but there are no instructions that say to call prior to showing up. Just wondering if that's how it works.
Sighhh. This figures since I was just commenting how I've never been chosen to do this.
Re: I totally jinxed myself
Gotcha!! Thanks!
MH thought it'd be interesting too. I'm more or less looking at it as a pain in the butt. Who knows, maybe I'm wrong!
No I definitely think it would be a pain in the butt too. Missing work, working out who will drop off/pick up T at daycare, etc. I think it would have it's pros and cons.
In Ottawa county there was a phone number you called when it got close to the date and it would indicate if you were supposed to show up.
I thought my experience was great! I got to see how the whole process worked and a kick butt female attorney in action. The subject matter was simple to understand and had drama so that helped out a lot too with not being bored. It was during the summer so I got to go to Grand Haven and have lunch downtown :-). Only lasted two days I think.
My biggest fear is that I will have to sit on some murder trial or some other trial that will show graphic pictures and talk about. I can't handle that. I would have to be up front and say that I would either tune all it or I would probably pass out.
For FB&HW listeners, remember how Free Beer passed out when watching Joe's video. That is so me.
I was REALLY worried about this when I had jury duty a few years ago. I wouldn't be able to handle something like that, and would be totally honest about it. I would probably even get upset telling them I couldn't handle it just thinking about it. I mean, I have a really difficult time watching violent movies, and I know it's not real. There is no way I'd make it through something like that in real life.
My husband had to report to jury duty last summer and he was selected to serve. However, the case settled the night before the trial was set to begin, so he didn't end up having to do anything.