Jury duty is a wonderful thing

Believe me it could be worse - my wife received a summons for federal jury duty in Jackson, MS. Details if you get picked to serve - 6 months of service, you must call each week to see if you need to report, if you get seated on a jury you are sequestered for the duration of the trial, you are responsible for your own transportation to and from the federal courthouse in Jackson (which is a miserable 3 1/2 hour car trip from our house) with a payback of 27 cents a mile. So she went to Jackson, sat most of the morning in the pool, the judge was not excusing anyone, it came down to a lottery, her number wasn't picked (not millions of dollars but the feeling had to be close).