Jury Duty....yea!

I have not exactly looked forward to this day. Having served on three criminal trials in the past and been called twice in the last three years I feel like I've paid my dues, especially knowing that so many people have never been called the first time. One person told me last Saturday that she forgot to report for jury duty and never bothered to call. She just let it slide and so far has gotten by with it.
The sheriff would be knocking at my door within hours! Fortunately a local judge is cracking down on no shows and has summoned about 42 jurors to explain why they were not in court on the appointed day.
Hang 'em high, I say! Not really, but they should at least be called to account.

The good news is I didn't have to stay. Only one jury was seated and the rest of us got cut loose about 11:45 am. This was a first for me and boy was I glad.
Jury duty is actually kind of fun if you get on an interesting case and if you have all the free time in the world to hang around the courthouse all day, sometimes for several days.
This civic duty thing can get expensive. (They pay us all of $12.00 dollars a day, woo hoo!)

Okay, enough griping....here's a good word for the day:

"Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to.'"
-- Lao-Tzu
(Ouch! That's a tough one)