My Very First Ever Jury Duty!

40 years old, registered and voting for some 15 or 20 years and have not ever been called for jury duty. Not once, not ever. Have been dodging the proverbial civic duty bullet for so many years that it was only a matter of time before it would find its mark. Well it hit and hit hard, boring in deep and unable to be surgically removed so to speak. So I go on to jury duty and it's like a fucking family reunion. That's sad, I have to go to the Galveston county court house to see family and friends.
Saw Suzette Cerillo, she's a nurse I used to work with and we just got caught up on old times. She still looks great, flaming red hair and now doing massage on the side. Also saw Alicia Ibarra, we grew up together in Hitchcock and I was at her wedding and her fathers funeral just recently. She drops in on my mom at work alot. She looks great, all of those Salazar girls look great. Talk about classic beauty. I also saw one of the guys from church, his son used to go to Our Lady of Lourdes with my girls. I don't recall his name but I do recall his son as super smart and always being on the honor roll, bringing home A's, and always at the top of the class.
So I call yesterday and find out I have to be there this morning just to be told to go home, no trials this week. Still have to call this evening and find out if I'm going back tomorrow. Why even bother putting little ole me on jury duty, make me drive to Galveston, just to be told to go home. They could have told me that over the phone.
So much for my civic duty, at least it wasn't my ass up there handcuffed in county jail scrubs. There were a full dozen men in the jurors box and two women cuffed together by the bench. The blond one was kind of cute but it was plain to see that she was going through withdrawals from whatever she's hooked on. Anyway more to follow later.