Last week I did the unthinkable - for the first time in months I took a day off work. I mean a whole full day of leave for no particular reason whatsoever.
The intention was to dilly dally and take things easy, but true to my nature I filled the whole day up with 'must-do' chores. Between scurrying to the hairdresser, and rushing out for supplies, I ended up spending a total of 4 minutes and 34 seconds at home, during which time a crafty court marshal managed to serve me with a court summons for jury duty!
Nice!
Just to put you in the picture, jury duty is no walk in the park. Over a hundred people are called in for each case, and if chosen as one of the nine jurors, you are technically held under arrest for the duration of the case. This could last anything between a couple of days or weeks, during which time you are checked into a hotel, allowed only a couple of supervised phone calls per day, and you get to kiss goodbye to any form of access to local media, including the internet.
Upon realising all this panic struck, but after rummaging through all the possible excuses that I could use to get out of it, I finally decided that I was going to do my...
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