Jury Duty Cancelled

I got the bad news late Thurs­day after­noon:  my jury duty has ended, jury duty for Jan­u­ary 29th has been can­celled — appar­ently because of lack of interest.

I con­sider this can­cel­la­tion bad news because it denies me the oppor­tu­nity to demon­strate the Big Three ways to get out of jury duty:

• wear a full beard,
• flaunt your edu­ca­tion (espe­cially advanced degrees)
• dress for gardening.

Juries called for the begin­ning of the week, Mon­days or Tues­days have a high prob­a­bil­ity of being seated.  Juries called to appear near the end of the week, espe­cially Fri­days, have a high prob­a­bil­ity of being can­celled — as mine was (Fri­day Jan­u­ary 29th).

But, cheer-up, there’s always next year (actu­ally not always).