and B. learn to relax and laugh once in a while with a sense of humor. It's jury duty, not brain surgery. And in all seriousness, if you are always available without question to serve on a jury, by all means -- start volunteering! Some people can't take time off from work because if they do they don't get paid. And some can't do jury duty because they have small children at home and they are single parents. Nothing is cut and dry as you make it out to be. Wow, this seems completely inappropriate. I really didn't expect to see something like this from this blog. It seems out of place, and not at all in line with the author I thought I had come to know by reading here. I have gotten out of jury duty twice in my state. The first time I was 6 months pregnant and a gestational diabetic. Excused. The second time I had a 4 month old son who was exclusively breastfed. Excused. The last time I got notice to serve, I wrote to the judge that my having to miss work for jury duty would cause them an extreme hardship as I work in a small community hospital ICU on night shift and you just cant put any RN into an ICU!. I did not get excused. The way they work it in Ohio is that you are in a pool of jurors for 4 months and if you are needed they