Whoever recommended this place clearly has no idea how to discern good Chinese food

Day 7 of Jury Service:

We are seven days in and nobody has been killed at night. So far I have participated in two lynches.

But this day and the last were dull. Very dull. I didn't get called on Monday, so I had to pass the hours with a book. Unfortunately, I finished it this afternoon and had nothing else to read :(

My name was finally called towards the end of today. I was excited. If it was anything like the last case it would be a hoot. Sadly, it is a very banal case. Apparently the defendant from the last one I was on made the front page in my town's newspaper! Nothing much else happens here I guess :\

One interesting thing though...I coincidentally ended up in the Foreman's seat. I may get to deliver the verdict! That will be cool.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/apr/26/big-ben-to-be-silenced-for-months-by-tower-and-clock-repairs

How will Londoners be able to tell what bong it is??

Will this be the end of the pound???

itsbrianyay @ 20/12/2016 12:09

I'm at wok8 in the food court rose You are missing out

How did the audition go.

Will you be on season 37 with Bryce?

The lady that works for me called off already for tomorrow because she had a miscarriage.

I called my boss to let him know I'd be down a person at my store and I told him the reason and his reaction was literally "GOOD GRIEF, A MISCARRIAGE?!?! BUT THIS WEEK IS CHRISTMAS!!!!"

Wikey @ 20/12/2016 9:03

Those European trucks are so violent, it's time they did something about them

I'm sure that trump already has a solution to this problem

BBQ chicken mac n cheese @ noodles n company is straight fire

Chris25 @ 20/12/2016 17:04

The lady that works for me called off already for tomorrow because she had a miscarriage. I called my boss to let him know I'd be down a person at my store and I told him the reason and his reaction was literally "GOOD GRIEF, A MISCARRIAGE?!?! BUT THIS WEEK IS CHRISTMAS!!!!"

I had a similar reaction to someone's grandson dying in a car crash like an hour before they called. It was an old lady who could barely do anything as it was so I was really confused why they were so mad.

I get to go drink beer and play lasertag at work today!

Peanut @ 21/12/2016 10:33

I get to go drink beer and play lasertag at work today!

I'm jealous

I went to the pool this morning to do my routine lap swim and the nasally woman was running the daily water aerobics class on the other side of the pool. Normally she plays remixed, up tempto versions of supermarket music but today she picked Eurotrash remixes of the world's worst Christmas songs. It was like "Christmas at Da Club: Rural Germany" at the pool today. You don't know misery until you hear a house version of Britney Spears' rendition of "Underneath the Miseltoe." My ears are still bleeding.

Throw her stereo/ipod, whatever she is listening to, into the pool

Day 8 Jury Service:

So I'm probably on my last case, which is nice, but unfortunately it appears to be a rather difficult one. I'm not sure what the verdict is gonna be at this stage, and today was the first time I've seen the Prosecution and the Defense really challenge each other, with difficult arguments been made by both sides. It's quite entertaining, but it's tough to figure out who is lying.

Lawyers, man. They are shady fucks.

Also, I have somehow managed to sprain my toe whilst journeying to and from the court. I didn't know this was a thing you could do until now.

And ffs, I lost a contact lens AGAIN today.

Last day of jury duty today.

We had to deliberate again. And somehow I ended up becoming King of the Jurors.

Everything started fine, I was just sat back chilling whilst everybody talked over each other and I tuned out, as I had already made up my mind. But there was a particularly opinionated person on the jury, who was the closest we had to a leader. From this point on I will refer to him as Humpty Dumpty.

The general consensus in the room was that we did not have enough evidence to find the defendant guilty, though we all thought he was a piece of shit and was clearly lying about something. Humpty Dumpty, however, thought we COULD sentence this guy guilty based on the meager evidence we had.

After talking it out for some time, one of the other jurors got frustrated, and accused Humpty Dumpty of going against the majority only because he wanted the case to drag on into Friday so he didn't have to go back to work. Humpty Dumpty was offended by this, and I honestly thought these two were going to have a fight at one point (: Best jury ever...

Amidst this chaos somebody called for a vote on who should be the foreman. Nobody wanted to do it, so I volunteered.

WELL, next thing I know I'm been told that as the foreman it was my duty to direct everybody from that point onward. WTF, I didn't ask for that shit. I was one of the youngest people in the room. So much for seniority taking precedent.

Now I was the master. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. Everybody was suddenly looking to me for directions, the King of all the Jurors.

I don't think Humpty Dumpty was too happy about been usurped by somebody half his age, but meh. He reluctantly went along with us in the end, but not before he insisted that we get clarification from the judge on whether or not Burglary involves stealing :|

Anyway, I actually didn't do too bad a job, though I hated giving the Not Guilty verdict, purely because the guy was a piece of shit who had clearly committed crimes before and had no intention of changing. He got a light sentence and he laughed as he was taken away. And like the last guy he had a young kid...asshole. Why do these people breed?

Edited a bit cuz I accidentally pressed reply before I was done (: