my mother is on jury duty this week. my first question was, did you bring your knitting? i mean, come on. jury duty is a knitter's dream. you're sitting there for like eight hours at a time, just listening. what else are you gonna do but knit? and when you're not sitting in the jury box, you're sitting in the juror's room with all kinds of time to knit. i wish they'd call me for jury duty.
just one problem. my mom said there's no knitting needles allowed in the court house. she said there's a sign right up front when you go in that says it. my mom's not even that big of a knitter and she looked. oh yeah, my mom said she got wanded, too. twice. guess they wanted to make doubly sure she wasn't carrying a concealed susan bates. or, worse: addi turbos. guess they're worried you'll poke out the bailiff's eye. or maybe some crazy person will grab your 14-inch straights and lobotomize himself.
no knitting needles. huh. no wonder those 12 guys were so pissed off.
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really? i'll have to look for the sign the next time i'm there -- i've never noticed it! then again, my atty id gets me in around the metal detectors so i never really had to look ...
Wow, talk about coincidence. I've never read your blog before, but I followed a link from See Eunny Knit today. I'm on call for jury duty all month, and last week I served. And yes, I totally brought my knitting with me! Of course, I live in n.w. Wisconsin and our county has the smallest county seat in this mostly rural state, so no prohibitions against much of anything.
I did find, though, that I didn't feel it was appropriate to knit during testimony. I can knit while I watch TV or movie just fine, but I felt that I needed to concentrate 100% on the witness testimony. After all, this is serious business. That said, there was still a goodly amount of knitting time. It didn't seem inappropriate or disrespectful to knit during most of the selection process, which took several hours.
I will probably serve again at least once more before the end of the month. More knitting time, yeah!
You can knit in NYC jury duty! I knit, and I saw another knitter there too.
Hi, I joined the KAL for your Fake-a-gamo bag. I would like the pattern, but when I clicked on the 'free pattern' link, it wasn't there. Do I have to sign on to Flickr to get it? BTW, good job, I love the bag!
i love that movie! I think i may have to go rent it and k-nit to it! :)
cheers
came across your blog cuz of your fake-agamo purse.. anyway, my suggestion is: take crochet hooks! even post 9/11 when they started to ban knitting needles from planes, crochet hooks were given the a-ok!
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