Today I reported for jury duty. For the first time ever, I actually had to go into the courtroom. Well the courtroom waiting room. There was a lot of waiting. Correction: there was only waiting. I brought a lot of things to keep me busy. I weighed my bag when I got home. 10lbs of stuff to keep my busy! I'm not proud of that by the way. Jury duty is a great people watching opportunity. If I could sketch people I would have done that too. But i can't so I to mental notes instead.
The guy sitting on my left spent the day playing his old school nintendo game boy. I haven't seen one of those in years. I almost didn't know what it was. A big gray box with with the 3 buttons. The guy on my left stared into space. He doodled for a bit on the one of the handouts they gave us. but other than that he just sat. I observed many others around the room with the same agenda. sitting and staring. How can you show up for a day of waiting with absolutely nothign to do? What's that about? I was distracted by these people . I felt a little concerned for them, like "isn't there something you should be doing now, or working on? Why don't you get a magazine from the rack over there. you know just to keep yourself occupied"? After lunch the guy on my left had a magazine.
There was a couple siting in front of me that was working on a puzzle. A 1000 jigsaw piece puzzle that was left in the room. They were kind of together but it wasn't clear. definitely an ambiguous relationship. Did they meet at jury duty? Did they know each other from before? Did they arrange to report on the same day? There was a lot of flirting going on. One person kept reaching over the other to get to a puzzle piece and such. There was an exchange of phone numbers at the end of the day. Maybe they'll keep in touch.
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