Jury duty

Today I was called in for jury duty. There were about 100 of us seated in the juror waiting room for over half an hour. Roll had been called and instructions were being given about parking, jury room behaviour, proof of jury duty slips, etc. A guy wanders in half an hour late, mills around and then interrupts the jury clerk (in front of all of us) and says, "I've been walking around and trying to figure out what's going on around here." The jury clerk addresses him and says, "did you just come in?" "Yeah," he responds. She hands him two forms, tells him he missed roll call and instructs him to sit down and fill the forms out quickly. He saunters over to a free chair, sighs heavily and begins to fill out his forms.

I was irritated. We have all had our days interrupted to serve on a jury. Suck it up! Be respectful to the jury clerk! And the rest of us who got there on time! In my mind I started calling him Goofus (as in Goofus and Gallant from the Hi-lights childrens magazine).

So I sketched him first. Goofus has the striped hat on. Gallant is possibly the other nice young man who arrived on time and seemed very respectful. The gal was playing a video game on her ipod after the group instructions had been given.

I got chosen for jury duty. I can't tell you what it's about or I'd have to kill you. I have to go back tomorrow but my case should finish by noon. I hope.