A foot note. There is nothing civil, about civil court.
I had jury duty today.
For those of you not California natives, Jury Duty is very frustrating. They give you a week that you need to be free, BUT you don't know what day exactly you'll be showing up. You're suppose to call every evening until they ask you to report.
This sucked for me because my Mad Science job is VERY "you need to be here when we say so" policy based. Getting a sub at the last minute is a biiiig deal.
Once you've actually MADE it to the court-house, you spend the entire day in and out of jury pools. If the day ends and you're not in any jury's, you can go home and don't have to serve for a year.
This time around, I was on civil cases. These are harder to get out of because unlike say.. a robbery case where you can be like "My Dr.LawyerCop BOYFRIEND was robbed!" Civil cases tend to involve things you don't have a huge bias for or against.
At my first jury pool, we all showed up and sat down, only to have the judge tell us that parties JUST resolved their depute.
The next case was regarding an auto accident, a young woman was suing the two other people involved in the crash, saying that she now experiences constant pain.
Which would be understandable except that the witness doctor was a chiropractor.
I told the judge that I didn't believe chiropractors to be a legit profession anymore then homeopathy or someone re-aligning ones chakras, and he acted like I told him I hated black people.
"Get the fuck out of my courtroom you harlot!" he roared as he flung his gavel at me. "I will use all my power to make sure you get stuck on a three month case you chiropractic hating cunt!"
After that it was lunch time, so I left the court house to go to Redwood. The most awesome pirate bar ever. On a side note, the past times I've served, I wasn't too familier with down town LA, so I'd go find a food court and come back with scuzzy chinese food. In the past few years, down town LA has become awesome, so I actually knew where all the best places are. Redwood being open for lunch was the best news ever.
As I left the courtroom, I stumbled into a filming of Law and Order: Los Angeles (doink doink)
And who would be there but everyone's favorite 90's actor and star of Law and Order: Los Angeles (doink doink), Skeet Ulrich.
He saw me staring at him like a crazy stalker and waved, so I waved back and yelled "I DID YOUR DAUGHTERS PUPPY PARTY!" Much to my delight, he actually remembered and said "oh yeah! that was lots of fun!"
Then I literally had nothing else I could really say to him, so I left for lunch.
I came back and got put on a new case that while it was something I think I qualified for as I was impartial to both sides, was going to last 14 days.
I told the judge that I couldn't afford to take that much time off AND risk loosing potential new classes at my job and they let me go. I quickly high-tailed it back to the jury assembly room and me and the other jurors who had not been picked chatted for an hour ("Who was that man you were yelling at on the street to about puppies?")until they let us go.
And now comes the time where I ask that everyone share their jury stories with me and times that they met the stars of Law and Order. (it's okay which one it is)
Ps.
doink doink.
For those of you not California natives, Jury Duty is very frustrating. They give you a week that you need to be free, BUT you don't know what day exactly you'll be showing up. You're suppose to call every evening until they ask you to report.
This sucked for me because my Mad Science job is VERY "you need to be here when we say so" policy based. Getting a sub at the last minute is a biiiig deal.
Once you've actually MADE it to the court-house, you spend the entire day in and out of jury pools. If the day ends and you're not in any jury's, you can go home and don't have to serve for a year.
This time around, I was on civil cases. These are harder to get out of because unlike say.. a robbery case where you can be like "My Dr.LawyerCop BOYFRIEND was robbed!" Civil cases tend to involve things you don't have a huge bias for or against.
At my first jury pool, we all showed up and sat down, only to have the judge tell us that parties JUST resolved their depute.
The next case was regarding an auto accident, a young woman was suing the two other people involved in the crash, saying that she now experiences constant pain.
Which would be understandable except that the witness doctor was a chiropractor.
I told the judge that I didn't believe chiropractors to be a legit profession anymore then homeopathy or someone re-aligning ones chakras, and he acted like I told him I hated black people.
"Get the fuck out of my courtroom you harlot!" he roared as he flung his gavel at me. "I will use all my power to make sure you get stuck on a three month case you chiropractic hating cunt!"
After that it was lunch time, so I left the court house to go to Redwood. The most awesome pirate bar ever. On a side note, the past times I've served, I wasn't too familier with down town LA, so I'd go find a food court and come back with scuzzy chinese food. In the past few years, down town LA has become awesome, so I actually knew where all the best places are. Redwood being open for lunch was the best news ever.
As I left the courtroom, I stumbled into a filming of Law and Order: Los Angeles (doink doink)
And who would be there but everyone's favorite 90's actor and star of Law and Order: Los Angeles (doink doink), Skeet Ulrich.
He saw me staring at him like a crazy stalker and waved, so I waved back and yelled "I DID YOUR DAUGHTERS PUPPY PARTY!" Much to my delight, he actually remembered and said "oh yeah! that was lots of fun!"
Then I literally had nothing else I could really say to him, so I left for lunch.
I came back and got put on a new case that while it was something I think I qualified for as I was impartial to both sides, was going to last 14 days.
I told the judge that I couldn't afford to take that much time off AND risk loosing potential new classes at my job and they let me go. I quickly high-tailed it back to the jury assembly room and me and the other jurors who had not been picked chatted for an hour ("Who was that man you were yelling at on the street to about puppies?")until they let us go.
And now comes the time where I ask that everyone share their jury stories with me and times that they met the stars of Law and Order. (it's okay which one it is)
Ps.
doink doink.