Oh yea I wanna see it! I got my hearing tested about 7 years back and the ENT doctor was pressing me to get hearing aides back then. He pushed too hard which in turn pushed me out the door since by nature I’m not a trusting person. If I do get them I’d have to go with in the ear type since I do wear safety glasses often on the job which would annoy the crap out of me but I tend to be upside down looking up often on the job and I’m sure the behind the ear style would move or fall often, even more annoying.
B battery? That sounds like a artillery fire support base. Paul
I'm over seventy bunches and I had to sit through 3 days of selection before Plaintiff's counsel excused me peremptorily in June I think...fear I'd sway the weak minds with my weaker mind, I guess.
I found the whole thing quite interesting though!
Best Wishes, Traveller
Oh, on Thursday, saw an audiologist...lots of testing, I'll post the results as a pdf if you like, I just scanned it into my computer this evening...but I've been pretty well deaf since 1966 when B Battery was overrun in up on the Cambodian border...good times.../lol/not/sigh
I was called for jury selection at least 15 years back and was released just before selection began. For this duty I requested to be exempted by stating the true facts that I have mild hearing loss and don’t always understand what is being said, I miss understand words. I don’t have hearing aides but realize I’m going to have to get them before long. I am looking at options tho. Paul.
In Minnesota, you can opt out for the week they've chosen for if you have some kind of an excuse.
Then there's a spot to fill in when you could do it. I always put in weeks with holidays. No one wants to go to trial before Christmas. If you can find a holiday on a Wednesday or Thursday, that's golden. Three days max that week. I've been on jury duty at least 5 times. Never been selected for a jury. I was on jury duty for Something do with the Federal courts. (it was a long time ago) That meant I was on call for 2 months. Again, never selected, only had to go in 2 days of the 2 months. My first day I thought I was going to get shot. Not paying attention, I walked through the metal detector and set it off. I was so busy trying to figure out where I was supposed to go, I didn't hear the guard yelling for me to stop. When I figured out who he was yelling at, I turned around to see the guard, hand on his gun, starting to pull it out. Oh yeah ... good times.
Enjoy your civic duty.
Just another point of interest, my wife's uncle, that's 98 years old, living in a nursing home recently got a notice for jury duty. In MInn, you can opt out if you're over 70 years of age.