Reporting for Duty

Today I received my annual (it seems) summons for jury duty in Municipal Court. One would think that in a town with a population of 2,400 that I wouldn’t be called almost every year. I suppose that after you eliminate all the people under 18 years old and over 65 years old, people who do not hold American citizenship and do not read, write, speak, or understand English, people who have been convicted of a crime and served more than a year in prison, students, those who have no child care for children under the age of 7, and people who have less than a 6th grade education, that probably leaves a jury pool of about 300 people. It’s not that surprising that some of us are called quite often.