re: #89 wrenchwench

I missed out on being on a grand jury in LA, because I was in college in Redlands without a car, and would have had to get up at 2 AM to take a Greyhound in. But there was a guy who wanted to get out, claiming poor hearing. He was in the back of the room, and the judge was calling on people with their hands up. This guy got called, told the judge he couldn’t hear well enough, and the judge said, ‘I’m sorry, I couldn’t hear you’ so the guy repeated himself, and the judge said, ‘Apparently you could hear me. Please stay.’

It’s happened to me once. But I had a legitimate hearing loss. It came out when they called my juror number, and I couldn’t understand it. That’s really what kills me, being in the back of the room and not understanding a thing.