Jury Duty!

I have spent the past week fulfilling my civic duty by serving on Jury Duty. I was scheduled for the week of our vacation to begin with and called and got it deferred to the week of the 16th. I didn't have to go in on Monday, but had to show up on Tuesday. (Interesting fact: They say that 25% of those called do not show up for jury duty. Our pool was 70 people, which less than 50 showed up.) After a day and a half of jury selection, I was chosen to be on the jury. It was one of those things that I didn't want to be on the jury, but I also didn't want to be rejected thinking something was wrong with me. The trial ran from Wednesday afternoon to the following Tuesday. It was a medical malpractice case taken by an employer, on behalf of itself and the patient, against a neurosurgeon. We found in favor of the neurosurgeon. I'm really surprised that the case had enough merit to make it to trial. The make up of the jury was interesting. Of the 14 jurors (12 actual and 2 alternates) it was 10 women and 4 men. Of the 14, 10 would have been under the age of 23! I felt like an old man on the jury (which I was the only male over 23). I guess that the summer has a lot of college students on them since they get deferrals until they are off in the summer. I'm now off the hook for at least two years of having to serve on a jury in the county. You may all feel better about your odds of not getting me on a jury in the county now!