Paraphrasing Spock. “You’re going to kill me whether or not I comply, so I choose not to comply.”
I’ve no idea, and hope I never find out.
Voted Other.
RE Muting whole threads. I do it if something I have absolutely no interest in is getting a lot of posts (I surf by hitting “latest” so active threads keep popping up). Things like internet gaming, or “change two letters into six and make a word that rhymes”)
ETA: This sounds more hostile than I intended. I’m happy people have all kinds of topics here, and I don’t care if they’re not my topics. I just mute them.
I am . . . mostly right handed? maybe basically sort of ambi?
My mother said I was lefthanded as a small child, but trained myself to be righthanded, against her advice, because I thought I’d have to be righthanded in school. There’s some additional evidence for that, in that when I’ve first tried to do something I’ve never done before, I sometimes try at first to do it lefthanded. I’m also clumsy, which I’ve read can go with being forced to change handedness; but I don’t know whether that’s right, and certainly there are other causes of being clumsy.
But I doubt that I could have made myself switch handedness if I hadn’t been fairly close to ambidextrousness to start with. So maybe I originally had a slight left hand preference. In any case, it’s mostly my right hand that’s been trained to do handed things, so in practice I’m right handed, though I make some effort to at least partially train my left hand in case I hurt the right one. – my left hand handwriting, for instance, looks like that of a small child, and is very slow. My right hand handwriting is pretty close to illegible these days unless I’m being very careful, but it used to be passable adult handwriting.
Answered the poll as other.
My story is complicated, too, but I answered ambidextrous. i con do most things reasonably well with either hand. Highly-trained skills, like handwriting, I do better with the hand that has more experience. So I write better with my left hand and use scissors better with my right hand. But my bias is more lefthanded, because I’m better at, for instance, using scissors with my left hand than using a computer mouse with my right hand.
Wait, you can’t pick up things with your toes?!
I can, but only things like socks and underwear. I have very short toes.
I actually work in an office building where you are enthusiastically encouraged to bring your pets to work.
I don’t love it. Usually the person doing so makes a staff wide email announcement as if this is a Major Event, and then the person brings the dog (usually a dog) around to every single cubicle, where everyone squees and you are socially pressured to pet the dog.
I’m not great about dogs. I’m a little afraid of them due to a childhood attack. I can only imagine how this impacts people with allergies. I find it very distracting.
But I was not fussed the time I had a kitten on my desk.
Monitor lizards? Hell to the yes. No thank you to Screech Owls.
ETA: I am very left-handed.
There’s no option for “Under 20.”
I’ve had several of my seniors get called so far this year.
I was selected to serve on a jury, but on the day of the trial, the judge announced the defendant had accepted a plea deal, and the jury was dismissed.
I was 18.
Me, too.
ETA: My sister just got a summons for jury duty in Federal Court. I’ve never gotten one of those. I’ve gotten an opportunity to serve as Grand Juror, but it didn’t work out. That participation was voluntary.
I checked “I went through voir dire for jury duty, but was dismissed”, but really I was sent to a courtroom where I sat in the audience and watched other jurors go through vior dire, they got enough jurors before they got to me, and I was sent home. I never actually went through vior dire myself.
The one thing about calling 18-year-olds, I was headed off to school and so got dropped. I’m sure that’s pretty common.
On the Federal jury, when I had lived in Boston a couple of years, a kid who worked for me got called for Federal grand jury, and was in it for about a year. He wasn’t allowed to tell us anything, but of course there was a mob trial running the whole time, so we figured…
I was once an alternate juror. I had to sit through the whole trial, but could not participate in deliberations.
It was summer in Santa Monica the year I graduated from high school, and I had to serve for an entire month, regardless of how many trials I was on the jury for. I was on two and a half. But I also worked for L.A. County which, remarkably, paid parttimers for their jury service. I was on a panel with Henry Mancini’s wife, Ginny, who was a cool lady. They’d recently attended the film festival in Cannes, and she said that people were using this weird “drug” called angel dust. That’s how long ago this was.
There was no option for me in the jury duty poll for either of the times I was summoned. The first one, in the 80s, I spent the first day in the jury pool room with a couple hundred people. It was noisy and the audio system sucked so a lot of what they told us during the day was muffled. But they made clear that you had better not leave and they randomly called roll to make sure everyone was there.
The second day after lunch I was called to go with a group to a court room for possible jury selection. By 4 p.m. there were just a few of us left and Nurora Maire was called to come forward and he did. I realized I’d misheard my name earlier and went to the back of the courtroom to ask the deputy if my name was on the list. Of course it wasn’t. I ran back to the jury pool room and no one was there. I spent the evening sure that they had missed me and thought I had skipped and I was going to be arrested. I got there early the next day, explained what happened and was told it was no problem. We were released a few hours later.
On the first day of my second summons, I given a choice to be on a Grand Jury or wait around all week to see if I’d be called for something else. If you chose the Grand Jury you only had to do it for one day. I chose that option and came back that Wednesday. The Grand Jury actually sat for six weeks and I was taking the place of someone who was absent that day. That was a very interesting experience. We heard a couple dozen case summations and decided they all needed to be indicted. There were a couple I was kind of iffy on but being the newby, I went along with the group.
Were any of them ham sandwiches?
I had a month of grand jury duty, which was terribly disruptive. The jury room was cramped and uncomfortable. Soured me on the whole business. The next time I was called, I was dismissed in voir dire for stating that I thought the age of consent was too high. The next time the judge started by chastizing all members of the pool and saying there would only be medical dismissals up front and it was a 2-week+ trial. To get a medical dismissal, I had to say in a room with 200 other potential jurors that I had an oncological CAT scan in another city two days later. Yeah, great for my privacy.