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jury duty
ReplyDeleteFollow the lights if u dare, your destiny awaits!.
ReplyDeleteOh my. I recognize this hall. Have I learned that you have been on jury duty? Have you met the one person who speaks loudly on his/her cell phone, not caring a bit about the 75 other people in the room? (That person is always on jury duty with me!)
ReplyDeletethat waiting area for the jurors is a lot better than San Fernando Court!. We were in a cold, old, basement of the courthouse.
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ReplyDeleteThe dreariest clump of civic buildings near my old DC offices have apparently cloned themselves...and migrated to Pasadena!
ReplyDelete(P.S. But that perspective...somehow, you managed to make it look cool.)
ReplyDeleteI have never experienced jury duty in Pasadena. Sounds like a drag.
ReplyDeleteWhat's in that folder? Will the lone figure at the end of the corridor get good news or bad? I'm thinking she's been selcted to sit on a jury for a trial of corporate fraud that will take at least 3 months.
ReplyDeleteThe last time I was called to jury duty I was one of the first 18 people to sit in the jury box selection area...the judge read off the list of witnesses involved in the case and asked if we knew anyone on the list...well...the two arresting officers were from So Pas...yep...I raised my hand...the judged asked how I knew the officer...my response of course..."my husband is the Chief of Police in So Pas" (this was a few years ago)...for some reason there was a lot of laughter in the courtroom! I didn't get excused right away...but when the lawyers asked if I would be inclined to believe the witness over the scummy looking defendant...I couldn't tell a lie!!! I was excused at the end of the day!
ReplyDeleteIs that John's hand?
ReplyDeleteThat's a great story, Chieftess.
my first thought was jury duty, looks like I'm in good company
ReplyDeletelast time i served I was juror #1 and made it through the whole process dang it.
Susan: yes.
ReplyDeleteKnowing that's John's hand, I'll guess he's about to read someone the riot act!
ReplyDeleteLooks like something's goin' down for the person at the end of the hall.
ReplyDeleteAlthough upon reading the other comments, it seems like it's jury duty -- which still means something's goin' down for somebody!
Chieftess, love your story!
The long slog.
ReplyDeleteI did jury duty in San Fernando once. I knew I'd be selected. I can't lie in those situations, and I was perfect for them. It was a four-day liability case. Surprisingly (to me), when we got to deliberations, I was the odd man out. The other 11 jurors completely disagreed with me. We deliberated for a while in a friendly way and I listened to their arguments. I believe they listened to mine. But when it came down to it, I figured 11 people were probably right, and I changed my vote.
ReplyDeleteNext time I would like to have jury duty with Chieftess and her officer friends.
ReplyDeleteJuries make for strange bedfellows, don't they? You can get surprisingly intimate in a short period of time because you do everything together except sleep. And sometimes even that.
ReplyDeleteI definitely didn't have that much fun.
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