Call of (Civic) Duty

I always thought it would be interesting to serve jury duty. I helped Chad pick a jury for a custody case he had, and that was pretty cool.

I have only ever received one jury summons, though. I got it when we lived in our 800 square foot shack with three babies and one car. No way I was going to be able to pull that off, even though I wanted to give it a try.

So when I received a summons a couple of weeks ago, I was pretty excited. The letter informed me that I was "hereby summoned to appear at ... the Municipal Court ... to serve as a prospective juror in the Council Chambers... Please arrive at least 5 minutes early as juror qualification will begin promptly at 9:15am., with no exceptions." Pretty stern wording.

I got up today, got kids off on the bus, and proceeded to get ready for my big day. I arrive at the Municipal Court early, as advised. A woman was waiting in the lobby to check the prospective jurors off her list. After my name had been checked, I was informed that I could leave. There were no trials scheduled for today.

What a let down! Here I had cleared my entire day for this. I even put make up on and shaved my stinkin' legs! Now I'm all dressed up with no where to go and it's only 9:22am. Hey, jury qualification should be taking place right now.