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what a waste of gas (jury duty!)

I had to be up at the courthouse at 8:30 this morning for the jury duty deal.

First of all, the place was hard to find. The road that the courthouse is on isn't even marked, so I had to stop in a BP Amoco to ask if I'm anywhere near Russell Avenue. Oh yeah, I am. I've passed it three times looking for it. *slaps head*

I'm already late, so of course, the police at the courthouse have to inspect the contents of my purse. (Zero tolerance, my ass.) They pull out my keychain and tell me I have to take the little can of pepper spray off of it and put it back in my car. I do this, running back to my Explorer parked in the crappy back part of the parking lot and back in high heels. Then I go through the metal detector. I set it off. So I end up taking off my earrings, my watch and emptying my jacket pockets to satisfy the cops. I go through again, and it STILL goes off. They wave the little metal wand around me and it goes off near my waist. I kind of roll my eyes, thinking "If they expect me to pull up my skirt..." but they pretty much assumed it's the zipper on my skirt, so they just let me go.

26 people who were summoned for duty are there, so we end up watching this video telling us how this is a civic duty, informing us of the obvious (don't read any publications or listen/watch anything possibly covering this trial, blah blah blah). Then the plaintiff and the defendent come out with their attorneys. (This was an assault & battery trial.) The attorney for the plaintiff was HAWT. Had to be at least late 20s, early 30s, cute smile, nice suit (a guy in a suit does it for me everytime, I tells ya), so I'm sitting here thinking, "At least I have something nice to look at while on jury."

Then the judge says that it's rare that there were so many people who responded to their jury summons, so we got questioned about if we knew anything about the case at all, and whether we had been involved in anything involving the defendent's attorney (because he's a public name around the area), if we had any sort of experience involving someone in a retirement home-type area (a retirement home was involved in this). Then they randomly call juror numbers for the seven spots in the jury box. Mine isn't one of them.

So the rest of us are dismissed to go home, I'm dejected because I can't look at hawt plaintiff lawyer, and I pretty much wasted the morning getting to Hammond for this trial. But I figure, "I'm in Hammond, might as well drive by the gun range and see if Zero's working today, maybe stop in and say hey." He's not there. DAMMIT.

So then I just went home. *le sigh*