I would love to do my civic duty and sit on a jury. But I have little children and now a senior mom with Alzheimer’s so if I could get out if it I would. I know I can’t, so I do pray not to be chosen. One day I would be proud to do my civic duty. It’s not about how serving would affect ME, its about those I have to scramble to find alternate care for.
You’ve got legitimate excuses. My wife did the same when ours were young and we only had one car, which I needed to get to work. She was excused.
I would love to serve, however, I live in one county, but have the adjoining counties zip code, due to the city of my address. All in the family, over a 20 years period, have received notice to serve but then been illuminated as the wrong county called. I have asked them to fix this problem, but they are unable as the computer program that does the random selection is geared to zip codes and apparently can not be changed.