Actually, I am on jury duty right now.

The way it works in my city is that your service is for a month. They will pick one day a week and you call the night before to see if you have to come in. In my case, it has been every Thursday in September. So every Wednesday night, I have to call to see if I need to go to the courthouse on Thursday.

My name has been called twice out of 5 possible Thursdays. You go there, they check to see that all the jurors called are there.

Then they split us up into two groups and assign us to courtrooms. Then we go to the courtrooms, then they start asking us questions and select the jurors they want. If they don't want you, you are free for the rest of the day. Also, if the parties settle before the jurors come in, we are free for the rest of the day.

In the cases of the two days I went, the first one, theparties settled out of court. The second one, I was questioned, but not selected for an automobile accident case.

It's been an interesting experience so far. I am learning how lazy some people are, not even showing up for jury duty when they are called.