So I went out to Pontiac for jury duty today. Now mind you, Pontiac is nearly an hour long drive from where I live, which could be cut down by taking I-75, but I-75 happens to be fucked right now.
Anywho, I get there, and I'm waiting in the jury pool, and they call out like forty people, I was one of the last people they called, so I got to go into the first court for jury selection, or rather voir dire. So the first thirteen of us were put up in the box and over the course of around two hours, they dismissed around nine jurors, most for cause, and with every new number they called, I was convinced I would be the next on the panel.
Well, I was never actually called to that panel, and got to go back to the juror pool. So around noon in the juror pool, they make an announcement that they're waiting to let us go for lunch, and that there's only one last court selecting today. They said that they were running out of jurors in the gallery, and that they may need more of us to go incase they run out (I imagine it must have been a big criminal trial, since they dismissed something like forty jurors). But around ten minutes later, they made an announcement that a jury had been selected and we were all free to go, our jury service having been completed. I guess I lucked out.
Now don't get me wrong, I would absolutely love to serve on a jury, I think it's a very interesting and important thing to take part in, and I would especially like it, if it were a big criminal trial; seems more important that way. The case that I was being selected for was a criminal case; a marijuana growing operation. Twenty to two-hundred plants. Big fucking window if you ask me. Anyway, I'm a full-time student and have nearly no time in-between semesters and I happen to have a final exam on Tuesday as well. So I really couldn't serve.
Of course, I get the $20 for half a day, but then something like 10 cents per mile for gas........ I wish they had just cum in my mouth. I'd have been better off if the court had just pissed on my foot.
Anywho, I get there, and I'm waiting in the jury pool, and they call out like forty people, I was one of the last people they called, so I got to go into the first court for jury selection, or rather voir dire. So the first thirteen of us were put up in the box and over the course of around two hours, they dismissed around nine jurors, most for cause, and with every new number they called, I was convinced I would be the next on the panel.
Well, I was never actually called to that panel, and got to go back to the juror pool. So around noon in the juror pool, they make an announcement that they're waiting to let us go for lunch, and that there's only one last court selecting today. They said that they were running out of jurors in the gallery, and that they may need more of us to go incase they run out (I imagine it must have been a big criminal trial, since they dismissed something like forty jurors). But around ten minutes later, they made an announcement that a jury had been selected and we were all free to go, our jury service having been completed. I guess I lucked out.
Now don't get me wrong, I would absolutely love to serve on a jury, I think it's a very interesting and important thing to take part in, and I would especially like it, if it were a big criminal trial; seems more important that way. The case that I was being selected for was a criminal case; a marijuana growing operation. Twenty to two-hundred plants. Big fucking window if you ask me. Anyway, I'm a full-time student and have nearly no time in-between semesters and I happen to have a final exam on Tuesday as well. So I really couldn't serve.
Of course, I get the $20 for half a day, but then something like 10 cents per mile for gas........ I wish they had just cum in my mouth. I'd have been better off if the court had just pissed on my foot.
On the side, it's crazy over the years to think of how many of my non-leather shoes fill up landfills when they fall apart at the end of the month yet like, what leather I do have (second hand!), I could be buried with. The cause and spectrum is much broader than reactions to catch phrases.
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