Monday 20 March 2017

Choice - die of boredom or high blood-pressure?

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.

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  1. So, they've found you at last.

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  2. Emergency room or something like that? I hope you are OK.

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    1. Just a waiting room. Nothing to worry about, but thanks!

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    2. Reading the comments i understand were it was, we don't have jury here.

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    3. I 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.

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    4. Norway is in 1st place. Also strange.

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  3. I said you could be sent home early.

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    1. No, 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'.

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  4. At the risk of sounding dismissive, it's only jury duty. Do you just go back tomorrow, or can you get on with it now.

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    1. I really missed it:
      At the risk of sounding dismissive myself, etc. Geddit? I'm in good form today.

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    2. You are on such good form that I am going to dismiss this question altogether.

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  5. It sounds a bit worrying -- so whatever it is, best wishes and all...

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  6. Everyone I know who has been called for jury service has had the same experience !!!! I hope you took a book with you .XXXX

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    1. There is a library of shit books to choose from.

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  7. I'd take the high blood pressure?

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  8. I'd rather pull nose hair

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    1. I do pull nose hair when not doing stuff like this.

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  9. You sound a little disappointed.
    Do you have to travel a lot to get there?
    Greetings Maria x

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  10. It 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.

    Boring has its good side.

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    1. 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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