Saturday my husband goes to the mail box on our way out and about on the town. He starts flipping through things. As he was flipping through things, he recieved that lovely letter informing you that you have been called for jury duty. I giggled a little bit and grins. I ribbed him slightly about the fact that he got jury duty. He continued flipping through the mail and laughed.

Then, he handed me my slip calling me to jury duty as well.

Yes, this is a 100% true story. We both got our notices that we were to serve on jury duty on the same day. So much for random selection eh? Technically, we will both be serving on different days I'm on a Tuesday and he's on a Wednesday. But we both got our notices the same day in the mail.

We suspect that it has something to do with when we registered to vote. We did this at the exact same time and we suspect that our batch of voter registration sort of popped up for jury duty selection. Perhaps they didn't notice that they were sending them to the same address. I didn't take his name after all and people often get confused when I point out that despite the fact that we are married, we do, indeed, have different names. Many parts of my family (and his I think) don't quite grok this fact and I am still occassionally recieving mail addressed to me with my husband's name.

So, I am called to do my civic duty and serve on a jury. My term of service is one day or one trial, which ever is longer. I don't think I'll be getting some huge case that will drag on for weeks. Well, I hope I don't. I don't recall seeing any White Broncos on the news lately, but I could be mistaken, I don't watch enough TV to keep up with these things. Maybe I'll get some crazy trial with Bobby and Whitney involved in them and my face will be plastered up all over TV. (This is Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston... they are the local Atlanta celebrity, drug addict, misfits.) I seriously doubt this. I'll probably be there giving my opinion on shoplifting violations, minor drug possessions and other such crimes.

I look forward to it actually. I'll be able to pull off some true stoicism in the face of adversity (a.k.a. stupid people).

Posted by Utopia at March 6, 2006 10:16 AM

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