My dad forwarded me a jury summons letter yesterday, which asked me to appear at the Mount Pleasant Municipal Court on August 24. I was wondering how long it’d take before my name got drawn from the hat and summoned for jury duty. General life-sense tells me that people usually see this as an annoyance and get frustrated that they HAVE to appear at court. Me, I’m actually really curious as to what happens. I really want to go and see, but perhaps after my first experience, I will come to see it as a burden as well.

Anyway, being in Boston makes it rather hard for me to make jury duty in Mount Pleasant, so I called the Court today to ask what I should do. Completely expecting a rude clerk who’s been on the phone with strange people all day, with no desire to hear me give my excuse of “I am out-of-state for school and thus cannot serve as a juror,” I was pleasantly surprised by a very nice gentleman with a southern drawl telling me “yes ma’am, no problem.”

He then proceeded to very patiently explain exactly what I need to write and fax in, why it is that only the judge can excuse jury summons, and “please ma’am, if you have any more questions, feel free to call us.”

“Yes sir, I will. Thank you sir, so much. You make me miss home.”  All spoken with the best southern drawl I can muster.