Yes, I'm a CPA and I can count - HONESTLY!
By reinydawn
@reinydawn (11643)
United States
July 2, 2009 9:36pm CST
I am so glad that none of the other prospective jurors knew my profession because I would have been even more embarrassed than I was yesterday.
Yesterday was the first day I had to show up for jury duty, and wouldn't you know it, they needed a jury. So, what they do is they select 35 of the 50 or so people there and take them in to see who's going to be on the jury. To make sure they have 35 people, they call your name, and when they call your name you say the next number. The first person says "1", the second person says "2" and on until they get to 35. Well, I'm intent on listing for my name and when they called me I had no clue what number we were on! I just said "Oh, that's me, but I don't know what number we're on." Everyone laughed and quite a few people helped me out by telling me I was number 16.
I didn't feel so bad though because someone else didn't know either and another person got ahead by one number. But it was pretty embarrassing!!!
When have you been so intent on what was happening, that you forgot about a vital part of the process?
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@khayshenz (1384)
• United States
3 Jul 09
It would have been a lot funnier if you said "50!" in a very excited, I've-made-it tone. THAT would have made the judge's day - I bet you!
Anyway, I'm sure I've done it before. Just can't remember off the top of my head though. So I guess not recently, huh? Maybe I'm due. Hahahha...Thanks for sharing.
@reinydawn (11643)
• United States
3 Jul 09
I think we tend to sweep these incidents under the rug and forget about them. If you're anything like me, you'll remember something in a few days that you did YEARS ago :)
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@GardenGerty (158187)
• United States
8 Jul 09
I had to ask my mom one year how old I was for my birthday. Guess I was stressed.
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@suzzy3 (8342)
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6 Jul 09
As soon as I get nervous I go deaf anyway I take it you are in accounts.I get to flustered these days to do anything like that anxiety raised its head about two years ago and I am on anti ds so that is that for that sort of thing.Don't tell them what you do or tell them have a laugh.Hope it all goes well for you.
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@reinydawn (11643)
• United States
7 Jul 09
Thanks! It was actually kinda funny because I wasn't the only one!
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@GardenGerty (158187)
• United States
8 Jul 09
I was in a group once where we were introducing ourselves, and I forgot my name. I am older and wiser now, and it has been a long time since I embarrassed myself that way.
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@reinydawn (11643)
• United States
8 Jul 09
I've done that before too, where you go around the table and introduce yourself. Professionally, I still use my maiden name, but for everything else I use my married name so I have to try to remember what name I'm using!
@teapotmommommerced (10359)
• United States
8 Jul 09
You will never be an idiot in my eyes. I have been so engrossed on what I was suppose to remember I have not been paying attention to what has been going on around me. You are human.
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@reinydawn (11643)
• United States
8 Jul 09
Thanks!! You're always a sweetie :)
It was kinda embarrassing though...
@mentalward (14691)
• United States
3 Jul 09
I can't say that's actually happened to me but I think it's wrong for them to expect you, as a potential juror, to be totally tuned in to everything going on when everything seems so foreign to most of us! I would think that the person calling the names should be the one to keep count!
The one jury I was on was an assault case. I remembered later that one of the questions they asked all of us before being selected was "Have any of you been the target of or had a family member the target of assault?" I vaguely remembered it later, when I was told I could have gotten out of that trial by saying "Yes!" but it flew right over my head. Stupid me!!! 
I wasn't embarrassed but I sure did feel stupid!
Some people feel jury duty is an honor and a privilege. Well, it may be but it's one I'd prefer never to have to do again. I just do not feel qualified to judge another human being, especially when the "facts" in this case were "he said, she said".
I wasn't embarrassed but I sure did feel stupid!
Some people feel jury duty is an honor and a privilege. Well, it may be but it's one I'd prefer never to have to do again. I just do not feel qualified to judge another human being, especially when the "facts" in this case were "he said, she said".@reinydawn (11643)
• United States
3 Jul 09
I guess the most embarrassing part was that the other 15 people didn't have a problem remembering their number... They were keeping count too, but we needed to say our number because we had to know it later. Repeating something aloud is supposed to help you remember it. I was just happy that I wasn't the only one that spaced it out!!!
The last time I had jury duty, it was an assault case and I did get out of it because I was assaulted as a teenager - the girl in the case was a minor also. For my case the guy only lost his job and was never charged.
It is interesting to be on a jury, but the timing is never right... It does seem like a hassle, although it's one of our duties to be able to live here.
