046 - Poor Excuses
I really don’t want to get up and go to FEDERAL jury duty tomorrow morning (actually I’ve already gone by the time you see this).
I’m set in my ways. I don’t like having to be ANYWHERE at 8AM - yuck - and then I’m told no electronic gadgets at all are allowed. Okay, I can understand that, but an e-reader? What kind of mischief can you get up to with that? While I admit some of them will go out on the web so it’s possible some prospective juror could use it for those purposes, I don’t know of any e-reader that has built in cellular connectivity, so as long as they don’t provide wi-fi, and why should they since we’re not allowed anything anyway, the e-reader isn’t a problem.
It’s this kind of inflexible idiocy that vexes me no end when dealing with a bureaucracy. Instead of taking the easy solution, they have a knee-jerk reaction and thus I have to bring a real book instead of my reader.
Idiots.
Small minded people who work in small minded businesses.
Him: no coffee, sorry. Her: go right in. Him: why did you just exempt her? Them: fine, you go right in.
With some good luck, you won't have to do this again for ten years.
Can you discuss any of this when it's all over? I keep thinking about things a person can say so he's rejected (capital punishment is too good for him) (four more years! four more years!)
I feel your upset. Mornings are very painful. And I cannot read a real book without strong glasses now.