May 29, 2003

Grand jury

I got called to jury duty today - not here, but where I used to live. I called up the woman, the court clerk and told her, and she looked up my name and then said "You were my grand juror, and you moved" with the same tone as when you call up to cancel a vacation and the woman on the other line says "Sorry about your sick goat". Now suddenly I am very sad that I will not be having jury duty, because this is the third time that I have been called and I have never actually gone yet. Always a bridesmaid... My mother was on a jury of a very violent crime and she never talks about it, so I doubt that it is an pleasant experience, but it must be an experience, and that is, I am beginning to realize, the entire point.

May 29, 2003 09:27 PM