My county apparently thinks (or the computer controlling such things thinks) that it’s peachy to call me and Taxman on the same day for jury duty. When our trusty grandparental babysitters are out of the country.
Nuh-uh. Can you say “postponement”? Figures this didn’t happen before we had kids, when it would have been nice to be able to hang with a pal while-u-wait.
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April 17, 2008 at 9:02 pm
shanna
Wow, it’s actualyl a pretty amazing coincidence. (Either that, or else they really need to work on the selection algorithm.)
April 18, 2008 at 6:21 am
chichimama
I am LONG over due for jury duty, man, don’t remind me! At least your kids are young enough that you can still postpone…
April 18, 2008 at 7:22 am
Rev Dr Mom
The odds against that must be astronomical. Think you could have that kind of luck with the lottery?
April 18, 2008 at 1:11 pm
ccw
I have never been called for jury duty. I wonder what the odds of both of you being called could be?
I’d go buy a lottery ticket.
April 18, 2008 at 3:28 pm
Ali
Adam is supposed to go in on Monday. I told him to try to get on, because it will end up being like a vacation for him. Shorter days, an actual lunch break, free time to browse on his iPhone, etc.
April 24, 2008 at 1:51 pm
3daughters
I have been called for Jury Dury 4 or 5 times (sometimes from the State and sometimes from the County) and got out of it every time! Once it was the day before Yom Kippur so I begged off for obvious religious reasons. Two or three times my number didn’t come up the day before so I was exempt. Most recently, I was called up for the Monday before Pesach. I sent them a letter saying that it was the week before a major Jewish holiday AND I was going to be 9 months pregnant. They sent a form, the midwife filled it out and presto, I got out of Jury Duty yet again. I don’t think they will have another chance to get me to fulfill my civic duty before we leave the country :-).
May 1, 2008 at 9:31 am
LC
Oh, man - in MA, you can postpone once (each time you’re called) without penalty, but after that, you’re plain stuck - a friend needed to show up in court *without* her brestfeeding infant to explain why she couldn’t serve. She was explicitly told when she tried just calling to explain that if she showed up WITH the infant, they’d find her in contempt!
And I once showed up at jury duty to discover a coworker was called to the same court on the same day.