A gem of a day

So I was told I had jury duty today of course I didn't read the paperwork entirely that accompanied it. Who would logically do that!? In regular sized font, of course nothing special is tells us, the standby juror to call a number to find out the status of our standby juror service. Now I realize this number this morning once I have already driven to the courthouse, which I might add was a pain in the ass to get to only to find out, yup I'm canceled. So of course its only 7:30 am and the "juror hotline" doesn't open until 9 am so now I have to drive back home in the traffic I just avoided only to find out that this juror service doesn't count and I am subject to another service within the next year as opposed to the typical every 5 years. Oh and did I mention since it doesn't count now I have to go into work. Yea that's great.

Here's an idea to the entire court system, not only did you waste my tax dollars on two different stamped items I had to receive informing me of my juror service request but also the survey which obviously never got used. But now I have wasted my gas getting there since I'll admit I didn't read the directions in its entirety. That part, I guess is my fault. But OH! Here's an idea! Since you obviously know where I live, and you have my name, how about a message on my phone telling me "Hey, don't come today you've been canceled" or "Hey this is when you scheduled for, be sure to show up here @ this time."

Because the last time I checked a phone call costs??? Oh ya that's right...nothing.