Well I guess I am the unique one. I've been a registered voter over 40 years and was only called to jury duty once. The timing was awful though - it was for the week we were making our first move in 30 years. I phoned and received a postponement of 60 days. When that time came I received new paperwork with instructions to phone on Sunday night to see if my number was among those to report the following morning. The recorded message I heard was that my number was in the group that would not be needed and I was excused from that round of jury duty. It's been almost 8 years and I've not heard again. My husband served 3 times in those years when I was never called and our daughter was called up once. Karen only had to spend one day at court - she was in medical school at the time and the case involved something against the University so they did not want her on the jury.

I would not mind local jury duty as long as it didn't conflict with something major. But we can also be called to federal jury duty, which means reporting to court in Detroit (figure an hour commute each way and not so safe neighborhoods).