Re: Jury Duty?

["Roberto" <Respond@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Being a senior citizen, I sent them a slip from my doctor stating I had an
enlarged prostate. I let them know I would be happy to serve on a jury but
under the disabilities act, I was handicapped and would require the use of a
restroom every 15 minutes, and by law they had to make this available to me
and could not exclude me from a jury because of my disability. Of course,
this would have been quite disruptive. They mailed me back a letter saying
they determined I wasn't handicapped but that I was being excused for
medical reasons.

Bob

"Norm Mugford" <1alarm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:lNIHe.1513$0p.4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Bob....claim "financial hardship" if you are
> away from your 24 hour a day business......
>
> Norm Mugford
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> "Bob La Londe" <usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:1122938150.bb7cf7c0e7106815f29b5b58e9387e73@xxxxxxxxxxx
>> Hey,
>>
>> I'm sure I can't be the only guy out there pretty much working solo.
>> What
>> do you do?  I have jobs scheduled, service calls to take care, clients
>> calling me for new stuff.
>>
>> I have enough RMR to cover the bills, but that doesn't pay for all the
>> equipment sitting on the shelves and in the field for new jobs underway.
>> New construction is what makes my boat payment, helps with family
>> obligations and makes up for the customers who don't pay their bills.
>>
>> I broke my leg and was off my feet for almost three months a few years
> back.
>> I very nearly went under back then, and I had a guy working for me, and
>> a
>> friend helping out where he could back then.  Even so I could make calls,
>> field customer issues, and talk techs through problems on my cell phone
> from
>> my wheel chair.  I had to be on the phone constantly to make it work.  No
>> cell phones allowed in the courthouse though.
>>
>> Being on jury duty is worse.  No cell phones or pagers in the courthouse,
>> and you don't know when it will end.  What if I get stuck on some capitol
>> case that lasts for six months or a year or more.  I'll be back to
>> working
>> all night and weekends to survive.  Finally I'm at the point where I
>> don't
>> normally have to do that anymore, and the state wants to force me to.  I
>> don't have anybody working for me right now who can cover either.  Not
> good.
>>
>> <Satire mode on>
>> What's worse, if find myself working weekends to just survive, then there
>> goes my fishing time too.  If I don't get my fishing time I might go
> crazy,
>> and then you all will get called on for jury duty when they try me for
> going
>> nuts and doing something stupid.</satire mode off>
>>
>> --
>> Bob La Londe
>> www.YumaBassMan.com
>>
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