Is it just me, or do the viagra commercials crack everyone up. Here we have this nice looking older man, with a manly song playing in the background then boom, "do you suffer from erectile dysfunction"? They like to play that one quite a bit on the History channel. They time it just right too, as soon as someone is in the room that it is uncomfortable to watch with. Kind of like a nude scene with your parents in the room. Always a classic.
So today I served my country by being summoned for jury duty. I imagined it being a giant waiting room where you mingle with other people until you get called. Then once I would get called it would be such an awesome experience that I would never forget... It was literally the most boring day that I ever lived so far. I got there early of course because I get every where early. I checked in and looked around these rows and rows of what looked like church pews and found the perfect spot on the far right of the room. I chose to sit at the very end of one of the pews. Pretty soon they all fill up and I notice that I am surrounded by men!! Not a woman to chat with anywhere near me!! What the crap!!
I thought about striking up a conversation with one of the men, but they didn't seem like they were the chatty type. One guy behind me almost got the fist because he was one of those people who couldn't sit still for more than a minute. He was either tapping is foot, or playing the air drums...I mean come on man!! So I decided to just sit there and get out the book that I brought. It was the most boring book I have ever tried to read. Pretty soon I am sitting there, eyes crossing from sheer boredom, starving because I was too excited to eat breakfast, praying for time to speed up so I could get the hell out of there and go to lunch, or get called to a case to begin my excitement.
Lunch came and went, and I have to admit it took everything I had to go back into that stinking, boring, no toilet paper in the bathroom room. I prayed and prayed to be called to a case to no avail!! I found myself secretly resenting everyone who was getting called. After the guy beside me got called I seriously thought about kicking up my feet and taking a little nap, if I wasn't afraid someone would find me drooling or snoring I may have done so.
They never did call me. I sat there from 7:30 to 3:30. By the time they called my name on the 'we don't need you list' I was barely conscious from the monotony of sheer boredom. So I handed in my juror badge and my belief that jury duty would be cool. However, I did get an offer that I refused, one of the other jurors that I didn't even meet in there tried to get me to take a ride with him on his motor scooter...Uh, no thank you!!!
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