But here’s the thing: I sort of felt like maybe I shouldn’t write a letter to get out of it. It’s part of the deal, right? Part of my civic responsibility. And while I am my child’s primary caregiver, except for those afternoons the grandmas have her, I know I can arrange for it if and when there’s a trial this month (we’re “on call” all month here in our county – you call on Monday and find out if there’s duty on Friday and the following Monday).
Just who do I think I’m being an example to? My daughter is far too young to notice that
It’s my first time doing jury duty, and I can’t imagine that it’s so bad. Yeah, it’s an inconvenience. But it is my civic responsibility, right? Right?
We can get called for jury duty once a year. If they don’t select you, you’re off the hook for another year (at least). Daddy took the day off so I could go.
I took a couple books and enjoyed the time. Sure, an IT geek tried to make friends, which was okay as long as he was downwind… but I digress.
It’s one of the things that make our country, despite all the lunacy, great. All you have to do to potentially have a say in government is be a registered voter.
I just got called to jury duty too. My husband is an attorney, and I asked him what he thought about me bowing out on the grounds that I have two little ones for whom I’m the primary caretaker.
He said that people like us — SAHM’s of little ones — are exactly the type of people who they had in mind when they came up with the exemptions. Some trials can go on for weeks or months, and it just wouldn’t be reasonable for us to be away from our kids that much. If anything, it probably wouldn’t be fair to the person whose case we were hearing because we wouldn’t be “all there” mentally. 🙂