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vigilantejustice · 3 years ago

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baby’s first day of jury duty! best wishes!

stupid baby’s first day of jury duty more like it! so silly to have like selective amnesia and experience anxiety like it’s the first time every time as if my life hasn’t been a series of anxieties that nearly never eventuate. just constantly being bitten alive before and during only to see after that it was fine and not at all the big deal it felt like it was going to be but then instead of acting like a being theoretically capable of higher order thinking and learning a lesson it’s like self-flagellative rendition of sisyphus and his rock.

tl;dr it was fine and in a move that is very on brand for me was worried for no good reason

#flagellative is not a word but those are all made up anyways so #anyways besides the cognitive show of anxiety i didn’t feel outwardly anxious until after my number was up to actually walk into a court #for the empanelment process which is when the yawning + shivering kicked in but even that ended up being fine #the bailiff walks you through it all and the other jurors are just as lost as you are so it’s fine #the way it works is everyone who was called for service today sits in a waiting room for a couple hours while the trials prepare #then a set of jurors numbers are called for empanelment #which means following the bailiff into the courtroom to sit in the gallery behind the defendant + listening to their crimes + their plea #after that they pull for twelve jurors from what’s just a fancy bingo barrel #if your number is pulled you identify yourself and then approach the bailif to swear an oath #on your way to the bailiff either side can call a challenge which means you go back to your seat #if you aren’t challenged you’re a juror and if you are you either get dismissed for the day or have to go back to the waiting room #simple enough process and all my anxieties have been answered up to this point in the process #my number wasn’t pulled from the bingo barrel because they’d managed to pull twelve already #and we were dismissed for the day so now it’s just waiting to be called another day #but with a lot less worry now that i know what to expect up until actually being a juror #even made casual conversation with the lady besides me so it really was a whole lot of worry and for what #personal

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