Jury Snooty

I was recently at jury duty. I won't go into much detail about the case or what went on. I will save that for a future rant. Anyways here's some quicky things about that day:

• Some dude was texting in a totally quiet room. No big deal, right? Problem was that he didn't feel the need to turn off the sound on his cell phone. His choice of sound was a "typewriter" sound that echoed every time he hit a key. How can someone be so unaware of their surroundings? Or maybe he knew everyone could hear him, but just didn't think it bothered anyone?
• A moment of thought while waiting to be called: "How many things on you jingle, Mr Dude next to me?" Some dude sitting next me was jingling like crazy. He had shit in his pockets that made noise, like coins and possibly paperclips. He had keys on his belt loop with other shit attached. He also had a couple bracelets on. It was like sitting next to a homeless janitor; he wore everything he owned.
• There was a weird moment between jurors as we all waited outside the courtroom. One juror, who had been complaining early about "being called in for this shit", was again bitching and moaning. He was mumbling about how "This is bullshit, why the hell am I here. I work for a living and on and on." Another juror was all like "dude, we are all pissed off that we are here and we are all missing work so why don't you just be quiet." Then the complainer dude was like, "Don't tell me what do to!" and turned away from us all and started bitching to the wall. Another juror was like: "It's our privilege as Americans to do this type of stuff.." And the complainer juror was all: "Well then you can be a juror forever and I can go home." Then I got tired of the bickering so I put on my headphones.

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