I was called in for jury duty today. Its my birthday tomorrow and my plans included sleeping in late, pajamas, mimosas, books and critters (both 2 legged and 4 legged). As it happened, I didn’t get picked for jury duty today because nobody got picked due to a medical emergency. So, tomorrow morning, I am expected to be there to go through the selection process that didn’t get finished today.
Do you think anyone would mind if I brought my comfort cat in with me tomorrow?
Brilliant!
Politics and gin will be the death of me. If gravity doesn’t get me first, I mean.
Dang. You got shafted on that one. Just get the kitty a vest that says “service animal” and take him/her with you. What could possibly go wrong?
I don’t think your cat would like court much.
I just got done with being a juror on a two-week-long criminal case. That was interesting. I had a really hard time with the getting up early part, as I’m a night owl.
New rule: if you go outside to smoke and aren’t back in 10 minutes you lose your bar seat. No more hogging a bar seat all night if your only going to use it for 15 minutes. Not that I would expect any sort of consideration or common sense from anyone that is stupid enough to smoke, but take your jacket off the chair, and stop leaning it up against the bar and let someone else sit.
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If I had known that our stupid postal vote over same sex marriage was going to make it mandatory for us to marry as soon as legally possible I would have voted no. Back off everybody!
P.S. you with the three ex husbands - never having married a woman does not clear the slate, if there were to be a wedding and if that wedding were to involve bridesmaids you wouldn’t get to be one. Stop planning your central role at our non existent event, you shit me.
Okay, I didn’t understand ANY of that…
Sorry. Australia recently went through this expensive, divisive and unnecessary thing
We queers are now allowed to marry. I am happy about that. I wept. I did not propose. I am being bombarded with questions about when we are marrying, not if, when.
And the P. S. is a friend who seems addicted to all things wedding who is trying to plan a ceremony in which she stars even though we are not engaged. Traditionally only the never married can be bridesmaids, I don’t give a damn about that but did ask why she assumes she’d get that particular role given her history would generally exclude her.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY FLATLINED!
The important question is, would the cat mind?
Huh? I distinctly recall attending my aunt’s wedding when I was about seven, along with my five brothers and one sister, and watching my mom process up the aisle as a bridesmaid.
There’s also this thing called “Matron of Honor,” which may have been what your friend was gunning for.
Maybe things are different in Oz.
Well, the terms “matron” and “maid” are kind of a hint…
Yabbut, my mom was just an ordinary attendant (probably for the best, since, living 400 miles away would have made fulfilling traditional MoH duties difficult).
Firstly, there are currently no wedding plans. There may never be wedding plans.
This person believes as she has never had a same sex marriage she can be a bridesmaid at one. She wouldn’t score matron of honour on either side, not being close enough.
Not that there is going to be a wedding! We don’t have to and they can’t make us.
I was in a bar last weekend (Joe’s in Ligonier) where it’s still ok to smoke. I’d have been thrilled if any of the smoking majority had elected to step outside.
Pfaugh. You’re just saying that so you don’t have to invite us…
(Ay! Not the hard things! No throwing hard things at people!)
Hope you get a special dinner or something! And that your cat remembers to bring a book or a ball of yarn to court. Wait, take your “Official Service Cat” and a laser pointer!
(Especially if you want to be Not Picked and asked to leave… side note: asking the prosecuting attorney tough questions accomplished that for me)
I got picked for a drunk driving case. When the defense attorney asked me what I thought about the current DWI penalties, I said they’re not nearly tough enough. They should throw the book at every offender. I was out of there in a heartbeat. (I really do think that.)
I’d just like to point out that if the world’s smartest people consistently work their way out of jury duty, then only stupid people will be on juries. This seems sub-optimal.
I was on a two-day assault on a police officer case once. It was pretty interesting, I thought. Don’t know why the guy took it to trial though, it was pretty cut and dried. Protip: Trying to run over a police officer with your car is probably going to be an automatic guilty verdict.