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| - Jury Duty. Mecklenburg County. 2017.
Arrive and feel annoyed. It isn't the state judicial system's fault that traffic from the suburbs to uptown sucks when you have to arrive at 8. I suppose if I had any constructive criticism for the local government, it would be - make this a 7-4 or 9-6 because traffic is horrific.
But once you get there... you want to complain because you are confined and limited, but there really isn't much to complain about! They give you: comfy chairs, movies, HGTV (when no movies playing), free WiFi, a free coffee or soda, some breaks and a long lunch, a pool table, a pinball machine, computers, a balcony... I mean... don't we all LIKE to sit around and look at our phones all day anyway? Here, you can do it, guilt free.
By the end of the day, if you don't get called to a courtroom like I didn't, you hate your phone. You hate movies. You hate amenities. Just make you do some work, dammit.
But I can't complain. Mecklenburg County nailed jury duty. Loved it.
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