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To: Blue Snowshoe who wrote (2599)	7/19/1999 8:13:00 PM
From: Blue Snowshoe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7442

Grub 2600. 909S BLUE

To: Blue Snowshoe who wrote (2599)	7/20/1999 6:09:00 AM
From: Joana Tides	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 7442

LOL Jed, 3 out of 4 Folks in that Jury Duty Room were Squirming Doing Something To Try To Get Out Of It! "The Horror" was facing the possibility of being away from The Stocks for 2 Weeks At A Time Like This!! I Was Desperate!! I got My Letter last Friday... ordering me to report on Monday with a completed questionairre (which I'd never received) or be held in contempt. Oh, what to wear, what to wear? Deciding to Go Subtle, I put on a halfway decent denim-blue silk casual-style skirt & blouse coordinate in that minimalist style of "the scrubs look" so popular a few years back... accessorized by some drugstore reading glasses with one templar missing that sat crooked on my nose and fell off if I didn't hold my head at just the right angle. This must have hit just the right wackoid note: my glasses even got the nod from a man who had also gone subtle in halfway decent business clothes with a three day Miami Vice stubble and a Christmas Candy Cane pen behind his ear- "Nice Touch" he said so of course I returned the compliment and wished him many 909s2U which caused him to politely and quickly back off from further conversation - we both were among those excused as not chosen at the end of the day. Wanting To Make Techride Proud...I thought maybe quietly sitting reading with crooked one-armed glasses I continually had to pick up from the floor would not only play well for the hidden camera but most importantly represent Our Board in The Finest Tradition! And Yep, They not only chose me to go for just one case but when I got to that courtroom the jury was chosen before they ever called my name to go up and answer the questions... Mission Accomplished!! Who DID they choose to empanel? They Took - (remember, this is Jerky Boys Country New Joisey tough competition I was up against) - A guy who'd been ranting about taxes, flogging, & capital punishment in Iran AND Singapore; Mr. Clean (my own choice for First Prize, he modified his costume with a hairnet knotted over the ear instead of a bandana, and chose yellow rubber flip-flops instead of going barefoot); A man in a starched seersucker shirt tucked neatly into shorts splattered with housepaint; a woman in real scrubs with the cap hanging out the pocket; a Robert De Niro clone dressed like Da Mob, a lady in house slippers wearing a pink flowered schmata and sox with ankle stripes, and a couple dressed-up folks looking Right As Rain but answering the specific case questions in ways that I was surprised didn't disqualify them. As the day grew later, it wasn't easy for we Thin Pickin's left in the Jury Room not to chortle and pound each other on the back... but all wisely stifled it & Saved The Congratulations til Success Was Assured and we had actually made it To The Parking Lot clutching our "Obligation Met" notes! So I squeezed all the fun I could out of a dull day... following our motto of "Making Money While Having Fun Too" by having twenty cents left over from the pay I'll get in 4-6 weeks after treating myself to coffee and a Drakes Cake, then a BLT and iced tea for lunch. The most fun was sitting in the "quiet room" well away from the dispute in the "tv room" over what channel to watch which finally was cruelly settled by a County Worker who set it to the All-Day News Channel and left it there. So a crowd quickly assembled hovering by the door for seats in the "quiet room" but I did hold onto mine - right by the breeze from the air conditioner too - a grub which had taken an early return from lunch to grab. Success!!! Saving The Best News Til Last...... Along With Such Omenic Creatures Escorting Blue's Elk ..... The Whole Courthouse Smelled Like Electric Trains. 909 909 Joanie