I could see it.

It’s a system of bullshit. Do you practice in NY? I had a huge problem with the fact that they wouldn’t give us the charges in writing...especially when we had a case with over 50 charges against the defendant. Like we know WTF we’re voting on at that point?

You should have seen us on the last day of month long Grand Jury. “TRUE BILL ON EVERYTHING!” We had chants for our favorite ADAs, slow claps...we were ridiculous. There were a lot of threats and “Remember, no questions!”

Let’s go back to your comment on jurors and TV...there were a handful of my fellow jurors who clearly watched WAY too much Law and Order and did not get what our job was at all. My head was practically in my hands during some moments.

Just came off of a month on Grand Jury. It made me seriously question whether reasonable, adult humans exist. I remember thinking if this is a jury of my peers, then we are FUCKED.

I just served for a month on Grand Jury, which yes, I know isn’t a trial jury. One month every day from 10-5, sometime later. Deliberations got VERY heated at times, and we were just deliberating over whether or not to indict the cases. Yes, at times people yelled. There were 23 grand jurors from every walk of life…

I think some people are into it. That shit LASTS. I just know that I can go into pretty much all of my friend’s parents’ homes and find that cornflower blue pattern (my own mother’s house included. Actually, grandma too).

Nah, your brain is just wired for that. Mine is, too! I rememeber ALL jingles/commercials/sitcom songs. I’m great with lyrics in general. My mother started singing that Tupperware Ladies jingle the second I showed her this thread.

Yes, but I feel like that’s also because those cups were only for us kids, and I vidvidly remember knawing on them with my teeth lol.

I’ll see your OCD and raise you anxiety. I had stomach aches and couldn’t sleep as a fourth grader because I didn’t know where to apply to college and was nervous I wouldn’t get in. Awesome kids.

I wonder if there is a person in America that exists who does NOT have cornflower blue at least in one of their family members’ kitchen.

The suburban Long Island town I grew up in has TWO Targets. Two in one town. It’s not like it’s a huge town, either. So spoiled.

I don’t think he’s autistic, but you’re right, he has a VERY flat affect.

Just when she starts getting on my nerves, she comes out with GREAT stuff like that out of nowhere.

Oh man. I’m not condoning this or accepting it as okay, but having gone through grad school, I chuckled a little reading that.

Nope. They don’t give a fuck. I had to listen to a rape testimony from an 11 year old girl involving a family member, and I was listening her simultaneously horrified (for obvious reasons), but also thinking that this shit should come with a trigger warning. I could not imagine listening to it if I had been raped. I’d…

My mom home all day, but I also think that camp is a regional thing. Here on Long Island, I would have literally had NO ONE to play with because everyone goes to day camp or sleep away camp. My camp went from prek-13, too. I LOVED camp, and continued to work there through college. That being said, your situation is…

Not a lot of money at all. The ratio for young children has to be a lot different than a classroom teacher, so you have a lot more adult bodies in a room. I am certified birth-grade 6 to teach in New York State, but I would never work in anything earlier than Kindergarten, the pay difference is THAT substantial.…

Well it was Grand Jury, so we heard multiple cases and testimonies a day. I think we heard over 40 or 50 the entire time. Horrific crimes, too, things that were in the papers and news. I mean, some cases and testimonies WERE downright funny, but so many more were horrific. Looking at pictures of dead babies and…

Totally related but unrelated: today was my first day back at work after FOUR WEEKS on grand jury. I am elated.