Anto,
I'll see your wedding and raise you jury duty.
I got my letter tapping me yesterday for...right at my expected tour departure date. Drat!
Of course I'm happy to serve, but it is the timing here that disappoints. I could ask for a deferment, but then it could come unexpectedly at some later date when it might be even less convenient.
This is the 5th time I have been called, excused each. Sometimes, a person's number doesn't get called. The other times, defense attorneys objected to me being on the jury because of my background teaching law enforcement officers and consulting to the criminal justice system. Maybe the same this time, maybe not. We'll see. Best to be "ready" for a tour regardless.
Sympathy and empathy, Anto. Yours will be over soon.
All the best,
Dan.
