Jury Duty adventures

[simplyn2deep]

Woke up at 4:45am

Left home at  5:08am and drove to the train park and ride.

Caught the train. Caught my connecting bus. Walked 2 blocks and caught a second bus.

Got to the courthouse and waited in line for 40 minutes.

My childhood friend's mother was working at this courthouse. Spoke with her for a couple of minutes before they started the orientation.

Sat around until about 10am before a doozy of a case was brought up.

This case though, the only one they pulled jurors for, that was scheduled to be 70 DAYS (ending at the end of September)! OMG! People groaned at that. The jurors had the option to say yes or no. The ones who said yes were applauded, the ones who said no had to tell the worker why, and then that worker either said it was up to the judge or they would be picked for another case.

Part of me hoped I'd be called, but they said that if you were unemployed and actively looking for work not to say yes if your name was called. I am in that category. I'm waiting to hear back from a couple of places in regards to 2nd interviews and/or job offers.

But...my name wasn't called. And at noon, they excused us. Told us we didn't have to worry about getting a summons for another year.

Instead of taking the 2 hour route home, I took the all train route which saved me about 30 minutes as I got back to the park and ride an hour and a half after I left the courthouse.

Drove home with very little problems from the car, and now I'm going to make something to eat!

Comments

[dontelltheelf.livejournal.com]

Too bad you couldn't have gone all train on the way up! But at least you got an early release. The one time I was called into jury duty, the only interesting case lasted about that same time and they called up I think maybe 100 people? Then they asked for people to go to Redondo Beach at the pier, and the guy in charge was giving directions about how to get there. He also said that if they kept driving and went into the ocean, they'd gone too far. I liked him. Too bad I got stuck at the courthouse until about 4:30, but in the good end, it was in Torrance!

[lostandalone22.livejournal.com]

That doesn't sound like fun.

[simplyn2deep.livejournal.com]

In theory I knew I could take the train the whole way there, but when I looked it up on trip planner, it wasn't giving it to me.

Coming home it was the red line to the blue line to the green line and I ended at the park and ride where I parked the car. It would have been so much easier and I could have maybe slept in for 30 mins.

But I don't have to worry about it until next year! :)

[simplyn2deep.livejournal.com]

It was okay, in that I didn't have to go on that 70 day trial, but the whole ordeal of having to wake up at 545 am was something I could have done without.

[dontelltheelf.livejournal.com]

Trip Planner is so stupid sometimes. And the phone app only gives one option for a route, which I hate because I know which buses I want to take (even if not necessarily when they run), so I find myself often just going to the mobile site. It shouldn't have to be like that.

That sounds fun. I wish one of the rail lines ran near Torrance. So not fair!

That's always good!

[simplyn2deep.livejournal.com]

I love the metro app! I rarely use it to plan my route because I know my way around, but I check for when the bus is going to come, so it's been great for that.

I was surprised to see that a Torrance bus goes all the way to downtown LA! I think it was the #1? I don't remember. I just saw a sign for Torrance Transit and was like woah!

[dontelltheelf.livejournal.com]

There are usually a lot of route options to/from my house and where I want to go, but the Metro app doesn't pick the one I want. It's like "Eff you, you're going this way!" So I hate it.

Yep, the #1. I used to take it before the MTA launched the Silver Line, which is so much faster. The #1 winds around city streets after a certain point (like, Watts or Gardena or something) from the freeway, and the Silver just does the straight up and down the 110 between the Harbor Gateway Transit Center (by the 91 freeway exit) and Adams. Then it goes up Figueroa and around downtown, which isn't so bad. But yeah, the #1 goes from Del Amo Mall in Torrance to Union Station. I've been on the last bus from LA, which leaves at 10pm and gets back to Torrance at like 11-11:20 or something. SCARY.

... oh wait. It used to be the #1, but now it's the #4 that runs downtown. It still runs a long way, and nowhere really near my house. I'd probably have to go to Del Amo to catch it, because for some stupid reason they do an End of Line for the Gardena 2 at Normandie/PCH, make you get off the bus, and walk to the next stop and pay again. I hate that.