Yet, everyone I know but me has been summoned for jury duty. While I was at Winstead my secretary had jury duty at least twice. My friends in law school had jury duty, college friends had jury duty, my teachers had jury duty, my Jazzercise students had jury duty, my father had jury duty, my mother had jury duty when she wasn’t even a citizen of the U.S. Everyone had jury duty but no one wanted jury duty but me—the wannabe juror.
So imagine my surprise when I returned from an out of town trip and found a jury summons in my mailbox. The time had come for Roxanne to serve on a jury. But, of all times in my life to have jury duty, this is the worst. I am traveling around the country at a moment’s notice which makes it hard effectively serve on a jury.
I was scheduled to report to jury duty the day after I returned from my reunion. As I was scrambling out the door I noticed that I could report for duty online. Yes that’s right, I said online. How wonderful. I turned around in my heels headed to my computer to report for duty on ijury. Apparently Texas is one of a handful of states that has online reporting.
I took the time to fill out the application. The application consisted of giving information about my education and information about my schedule. Reporting was easy as pie. Too good to be true—right? Maybe. Here is why . . .
A week later, I received an email from ijury telling me that I have to be available from December 4 to 22nd!! That is more than half of a month. My question is whether I would have had to be available that long if I had reported in person. My hope is that I will serve on a day I am actually in Austin! Sigh . . . Bottom line, be careful what you wish for because you never know what form it will come in.
I will keep you posted on my jury duty debacle.
-- RXW
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