What's on your mind?

[DerVVulfman]

Wow, this was no joke!

First, I had to be there by 7:30... a 40 minute drive.  So....   I woke at 7am.  EEP!???

Needless to say, I had a ridiculously fast breakfast, dressed and drove like I was Mario Andretti.    A 40 minute drive in just over 20 minutes.  "Go Speed Racer, Gooooo---*"

I reached the 'free' parking and jogged the rest of the way in the rain.  Amazingly, I entered and got to the preliminaries JUST in time, sweating and not feeling that well.  After the presentation, I headed straight to the rest area.    Yep, I was sick....  There went breakfast. 

After I got back, they were just starting to pass out colored cards...  18 yellow cards, 40 pink, 40 red, 24 blue, 18 green....  Well over 100 in the Jury Assembly Room were  then called to different court rooms and court cases...  I and two dozen still waiting to see...

Three hours passed, and a good number of those that had pink cards came back.  Apart from 12 that were selected, the rest returned and were excused for the rest of their appearance.   Then six members with yellow cards came back.  Ditto.  By twelve, two more groups returned, and then we in the Jury Assembly Room  were excused for a 30-minute lunch break.

Decisions... decisions...  Have the overpriced food in the Courthouse Cafe, buy ridiculously priced gummies in a vending machine for $2.00 or go out to the 7-11 and get a hot dog.

Before 12:30, we were all back.  And just before 1am, the remainders of the red-card jurors came back; that jury was selected without issue.  So since there were no court cases short of jurors, we 'substitutes' were finally let go.

I finally got home by 2pm.