Tiny Things That Annoy You • Page 465

When people put the emphasis at the wrong point of a word/phrase.

Examples -

• It's in-SUR-ance, not IN-sur-ance, and
• It's Taco BELL, not TA-co Bell

 

My wife usually does the grocery shopping and she will buy a package of treats because she wants one that day so they're opened. I will then eat them slowly over the course of the next few weeks/month, depending on how many there are and she'll come back a month or 6 weeks later asking where they went.

 

This is a curb episode and Larry would be right

 

I got jury duty for the first time ever next month

 

pretty sure if you say you don’t want to be there they’ll dismiss you

 

tell them you’d love to help but they’re all aliens so you don’t feel comfortable

 

yeah or just tell them you identify as a stapler

 

I think I've mentioned this before but I was out of jury duty immediately because they asked me what I'd do with their client who rear ended someone and hurt their neck and I said consult the law and they were like okay you can go now

 

Ian’s a pro at this

 

I’ve only been summoned once, but wound up not actually needing to go in. So I feel lucky in that regard

 

I’ve been summoned a few times and never went

 

I’ve never been summoned before but my mom has multiple times. She got out of it every time. She submits the form asking to be excused bc she’s single and lives paycheck to paycheck and can’t afford to take a pay cut for the time off work and it’s always worked.

 

I’ve received the letter that I would need to serve on jury duty twice in my life. First time I had to go but before the court stuff even started the case was settled so after sitting in silence in a tiny room with 11 strangers for an hour or so (idk I fell asleep) they said we could go and that was it.

Last year when I got the notice thankfully every case was settled before hand so I never ended up doing anything.

If I would ever need to go I would FOR SURE make it super obvious that I would be biased in one direction or the other to get excused lol.

 

Makes me now want to go down the rabbit hole of super high profile cases that last forever and what the jury experiences. Like, the OJ Simpson trial or Casey Anthony trial - ones that go on for weeks and the jury lives out of a hotel and basically needs to be secluded the entire time so they can’t be tampered with. Sounds like a miserable experience. Can they not go home during it? Are their calls to people monitored to make sure they don’t learn something that the media is saying? How many of them lost jobs because of it or couldn’t afford bills because the jury duty pay sucks? And in the current day and age, are they allowed smartphones and/or is their shit watched to make sure they don’t learn anything outside of the courtroom? I have so many questions lol

 

I would probably be that one character on Jury Duty (the show) who naively thought being on a jury was like attending a live taping of a true crime podcast, then being disappointed when it is a boring civil suit.

 

If you poop your pants they legally have to let you go home.

 

My old roommate got an attempted murder trial when he got jury duty, at least that would be somewhat interesting.

 

Feel like I would enjoy jury duty for the built-in excuse of not having to go to work. That being said, they absolutely should pay people more for it

 

I am currently inbetween jobs so I think I get paid more. On the summons letter it talks about how people with jobs that have PTO for jury duty, those with jobs that have unpaid time off for jury duty, and unemployed/retirees are in different compensation categories.

 

Wtf? So weird. Did you just re-send them as is with the exact same addressing on them and it went fine the second time?

 

I've never had Jury Duty. My company gives jury duty pay though so I'm not sure if I would prefer a break from work or not. Guess it depends how fucked up or boring the case is. I know someone who got a (TW) CP case and it kinda fucked them up to see the evidence

 

My old job had jury duty pay, but if any portion of your regular shift was outside jury duty hours you still were expected to go to work and finish the remainder of your shift after court was over. I worked 11am to 7pm so that would have been a nightmare having to do that everyday.

 

The wedding was about 2 1/2 months away at that point so we didn’t bother sending them out again. We just had to reach out to people directly, which was kind of awkward.

But there were also a lot of people that actually did get their invites, but didn’t RSVP, so it was pretty awkward when the answer was no…

But yeah, that shit was stressful as hell lmao.

 

Haha damn I bet. I say we need to shift to a cultural norm of invites over text messages now! Haha

 

I’m not saying they don’t help at all but what I am saying is nose hair trimmers are kind of a scam. even the best ones miss a good bit of hairs