jury duty, 4.8.25

i had jury duty in framingham this morning. it makes no sense because everybody in my household has woburn and framingham is dumb far away, especially in the morning. i needed to be there at 8:30am. i left my house at 7:08am and didn’t get there until 8:28am. i was nervous i was going to be late and couldn’t find a parking spot like last time, but it all worked out. in terms of jury duty, i was torn in between if i wanted to be selected or not. people say it’s a bore, but if i had a compelling case, i wouldn’t have minded. i went through security and sat in a room with about 15-20 other jurors. we were told the framingham courthouse does things differently as there is only one court there. in other places like woburn, they have multiple rooms with multiple cases going on all day. we were shown a video and roll was called. we waited another 40 or so minutes before the judge himself came in. he said there was good news and bad news, depending on what we were looking forward to. they had 4 cases that day. two got rescheduled, one had a witness who didn’t show up, and the last took a plea deal. he said the last case he thought was going to trial for indecent liberties and assault, but last second they took the plea. the decision was made for all of us jurors and we were sent home having done our civic duty. i sat in the car and wrote a little before heading to natick mall to walk around and grab lunch at cheesecake.

i’m good for the next 3 years, but the hope is i won’t be living in massachusetts by then.

-ratha, 2:48pm, 4.8.25