I've just come back from the equivalent of airport security, but with no flight or holiday to make it all worthwhile. I was sent home after a two-hour wait in the equivalent of an airport lounge, but will return another day. That's all I can say about it right now, if not forever.
I think missing a connecting flight in Schipol airport was one of THE most stressful situations I have ever experienced, especially having run the two miles between gate 1 and gate 38, or whatever they were.
Oh well, at least I didn't have the heart attack that I was expecting any minute... yet.
So, they've found you at last.
ReplyDeleteOther way round...?
DeleteEmergency room or something like that? I hope you are OK.
ReplyDeleteJust a waiting room. Nothing to worry about, but thanks!
DeleteReading the comments i understand were it was, we don't have jury here.
DeleteToo dangerous?
DeleteI don't know why, i shall read about it , we have theEnglish sistem here so i don't understand.I just read in the news paper that we are in the 11 place from 115 countries in the "happiness scale".Strange.
DeleteNorway is in 1st place. Also strange.
DeleteI said you could be sent home early.
ReplyDeleteNo, you said your brother never went home early and I said that this was either impossible or illegal. There is a big difference between what you think of as 'early' and when you are formally discharged. Nobody, I repeat, goes home 'early'.
DeleteSorry
DeleteI got involved
DeleteAt the risk of sounding dismissive, it's only jury duty. Do you just go back tomorrow, or can you get on with it now.
ReplyDeleteI really missed it:
DeleteAt the risk of sounding dismissive myself, etc. Geddit? I'm in good form today.
You are on such good form that I am going to dismiss this question altogether.
DeleteIt sounds a bit worrying -- so whatever it is, best wishes and all...
ReplyDeleteNo, just boring so far.
DeleteEveryone I know who has been called for jury service has had the same experience !!!! I hope you took a book with you .XXXX
ReplyDeleteThere is a library of shit books to choose from.
DeleteI'd take the high blood pressure?
ReplyDeleteI might have that anyway.
DeleteI'd rather pull nose hair
ReplyDeleteI do pull nose hair when not doing stuff like this.
DeleteYou sound a little disappointed.
ReplyDeleteDo you have to travel a lot to get there?
Greetings Maria x
A short train ride.
DeleteIt was easier to make the time pass back when one could still take knitting into the courthouse. Too dangerous now, so it's just take along something to read. The last time I was called for jury duty, I was glad to be excused from serving on the panel for a particularly gruesome murder trial. The stuff of nightmares. I remembered reading about the discovery of the body in newspapers a year before.
ReplyDeleteBoring has its good side.
I was amazed to see some jurors taking books into the courtroom. There is no way they would be allowed to read them during the trial! There was a woman knitting in the juror's assembly area when everyone else was reading. I kept thinking of the women in France, knitting under the shadow of the Guillotine.
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