Jury Service
Yup, I finally got zapped and couldn't find an excuse to get out of it this time either. Its a bit hard when you don't work and DH is at home too so you can't even cite childcare hassles as an excuse. Anyway I had to turn up at the court yesterday morning to go through the whole thing. Can't believe how nervous I was to be doing this and the tenseness I felt turning up at the courthouse as though I was guilty or something. Heaps of security too going through the airport type metal detectors and guards actually searching through my handbag. Talk about feeling like a criminal.
Anyway into the actual courtroom along with about 80 other people and they run us through the process explaining all the ins and outs. Hardly any seating and I was sent along to the jury box to sit in through this - good view from there. The jury is finally called out and my name wasn't called at all - whew that is a relief, kind of, although after all the dramas up till then I was kind of disappointed not to be selected.
My SIL keeps getting called up for this - she lives in Whangarei too. Must be a small pool of potential jurors I guess. (Comment this)