Today's OneWord: Jury

I was summoned for jury duty two weeks before my birthday, and this allegedly was a big case. Obviously, I couldn’t tell anyone what was happening, not even my wife, who was a lawyer and always was interested in litigation and criminal cases. I arrived at the civic center at 7:30 AM, way too early, and settled down with a book I had pulled from my office shelf. A stranger, younger than I was by probably about five years, sat down next to me.