<i>&quot;Why do I have get up at 6:00 AM just to sit around for three days while you idiots figure out if you need me or not?&quot;</i><p>My wife was called for jury duty a couple years back.  It was a drunk driving case.  During the preceding 12 months, she&#x27;d lost family in one accident involving a drunk driver, and a close friend of hers was hit (thankfully, not terribly injured) by a drunk driver in a separate accident.  There was <i>no way</i> they were going to let her on that jury - they were dismissing people for <i>far</i> less.  And she had to go back three days.<p>Neither she nor I try to get out of jury duty - we view it as important and want to do our part - but yeah it can get abusive in pretty stupid ways.