Jury duty (January 14, 2019)

I was summoned for jury duty for the first time in my life last Fall.  Managed to get a continuance because the appearance date conflicted with the Portland trip in December.  But the government will have its due.  I was one of 30 prospective jurors who appeared as required on January 14.  Six of us would be chosen for the drunk driving case. We were assigned randomly-selected numbers, mine being "17."  I learned two things: (1) Being assigned the number 10 or below increases one's chance of being selected; and (2) during the 3-hour process of being questioned and waiting around, you're not allowed to leave to feed the meter.  However, you can submit a resulting parking ticket to the bailiff for "fixing." I wasn't chosen and was kind of sad.  Would have been interesting to serve on a jury.