Sprkus

It was bound to happen some time. One of the major punishments for striving to be a stand-up citizen and taking the time to vote.

Not to mention wading through the mountains of politicians’ bullshit to try and determine who’s the most sincere. Who will be the best man for the job prior to each election. People who vote by party every time no matter what are just lazy, but I digress.

I’ve been summoned for jury duty.

Franklin County chooses its jurors randomly from its pool of registered voters. So only those that take the time to register so they can vote on issues and political candidates have a chance of being selected to serve jury duty.

I guess its a way of trying to filter out people that are not likely to show up anyway. But what ends up happening is an extreme form of self-penalization.

“I’m gonna take the time out of my day to first register, then go stand in line to vote so that I may one day have to serve two weeks at the Franklin County Common Pleas Court.”

Furthermore, I wonder just how random is the jury selection process? Do they put all the registered voters in a big turning raffle-prize shuffler and draw them out one by one? Maybe every registered voter is a plastic ball that is chosen from Pick-5 style.

It’s probably more like: “This Steven Stevenson seems like he’s having a bad month already. I mean, look at his name. Let’s summon him for jury duty!”

However the means, I’m ordered to start on Monday Sept. 24 and return for nine straight week days after.

I’ve never served before, so I don’t have an opinion on the act but I’ve heard it’s absolutely awful. Super dull.

I told my boss and he’s not too keen on the idea of me not being in the office for two weeks. Maybe he’ll write me a doctor’s note and I can get off.