Thursday, July 30, 2009
DC Jury Duty by the Numbers
Date: 7/30/2009
Arrival Time: 7:59 am
Number of times Jury Service deferral had been requested: 1
Juror's Office location: Room 3130
Number of potential Jurors seated in Juror's Lounge: 185
Number of men who exchanged cell phone numbers with Girl with Flower in Her Hair: 2
Men in shorts: 4
Men in muscle T shirts: 1
Women in flip flops: 12
Men in flip flops: 2
Male bloggers wearing a fashionable yet appropriate sweater vest and tie on a 90 degree day: 1
Men wearing baseball caps: 4
Women wearing hats: 0
Women dressed like Hillary Clinton: 28
Batman water bottles carried: 1
Number of men dressed Like Col. Sanders with the exception of one leg of the white pants tucked into his black sock: 1
Number of times the Clerk said "Good Morning!" at the beginning of the orientation before the crowd gave an acceptable enthusiastic reply: 3
Number of times Girl with Flower in Her Hair announced during orientation that the water was out in the Lady's room: 2
Number of times Girl with Flower in Her Hair announced during orientation that the water was out in the Men's room: 1
Number of people who wondered how she knew the status of the Men's room water supply: 182
Age of movie broadcast in Juror's Lounge: 14 years ("Sabrina" 1995)
Number of back issues of "Full Court Press" ("The Newsletter of the District of Columbia Courts!") available in the Juror's Lounge: 3
Number of back issues of "Full Court Press" using the term "southern Mesoamerica": 1
Jurors invited to the first panel in Room 311: 60
Lunch break start time: 1:00 pm
Lunch break end time: 2:30 pm
Number of men previously wearing a Muscle T who returned after lunch in a new outfit that was slightly more professional but still inappropriately form fitting for a man over 40 outside of an Abercrombie and Fitch store not that it was noticed or judged: 1
Length of time Juror 904 spent in Jurors box as a potential Juror: 9 minutes
Length of time Juror 904 made soon-to-be regrettable promises to his Higher Power: 9 minutes
Dismissal time: 3:45 pm
Juror pay: $4.00
Number of men Girl with Flower in Her Hair was last seen talking to on the Green Line: 3
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3 comments:
Where'dja get a Batman water bottle?
Why does your experience sound so much more interesting than mine?
They showed Ken Burns' "Jazz" when I did my duty. Jury duty in DC is definitely a people watching paradise.
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