"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?" My wife was called for jury duty a coupl

"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?" My wife was called for jury duty a couple years back. It was a drunk driving case. During the preceding 12 months, she'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 no way they were going to let her on that jury - they were dismissing people for far less. And she had to go back three days. 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.