JUROR 28
Juror 28 Today I went to jury duty. The 1st one I’ve ever attended. I been summoned a few times before but didn’t go for various reasons. But this time it’s happening. It started with the dreaded letter we all hate to see but there it was and then I lost it and forgot about it. So a few months later another type of letter shows up. The one where they threaten you and make you feel like you are one on trial and it lets you know you may be subject to fines and or confinement. Is scare tactics really what you want to use? But it worked. I called and a very nice lady said I was fine and they let me schedule it on the day I wanted. And that day is here. It’s a cool morning in April and I walk into a grey building in a grey room and plop my stuff on a scanner belt, like the ones you see at the airport. The lady is yelling out instructions behind dead eyes and to no one in particular. It’s very creepy. As I walk through the body scanner, of course it beeps so loudly I jump and
