gripe of the month

you know what really grinds my gears...

so i get called into jury duty. i have to wake up at the BUTT CRACK of dawn! i drive out to the courthouse to find out that the trial has been settled and i need to call over the weekend to see if i'm needed for next week. ugh! ok so next week comes around. i called them, even on my way out there, and they say yes the trial is still on!

i get there and there are no more seats available for me to sit, so i sit on the floor. haha figs! then we all get called into the room and they go through this whole schpill on the court stuff blah blah blah. so...

then they call the 14 who they will actually need. and of course i'm called up there. THEN the judge, who was really funny, asks a CRAP load of questions to pretty much see if we all qualify to be jurors for this trial. after the questioning, he said they were dismissing 3 jurors. after one is dismissed someone needs to move down and fill their seat.

now the trial was about someone who got hurt on the job and wants workman's comp. so they dismissed a guy who has been hurt on the job, and another guy (for what- i don't remember), then they asked me to fill his seat, so i got up, sat down, then the Defendant called my name. WHAT did i do???? they dismissed me for NO REASON.

the funny thing is that i really didn't want to be there. i had pictures to turn into the paper and i don't know the first thing about trials, nor do i care. but why the heck did they dismiss me?

i called my dad and told him all about it. he said that they were probably looking for a certain profile and a model blonde carrying a louie vuitton bag was not quite what they were looking for. hahaha! whatevs.

oh and SIDE BAR: the judge asked us not to say, "whoopie" if we are dismissed & i said, "sweet! that was fast" oops. that didn't look good i'm sure. hehehehehe