Fiorella is very excited about the prospect of jury duty. She hopes she is chosen and gets a juicy case. Not juicy enough to interfere with her life, of course, but juicy enough to give her fodder for her blog and for any murder mystery she ends up writing in the future.
Fio wasn't always so enthusiastic about jury duty back when her pay would get docked if she missed work. In fact, she developed several ways to ensure she WASN'T chosen. First, she always strove to make an eccentric fashion statement; second, announced she was an underpaid academic; then, showed extreme preference for one side or the other. It worked.
But consider the single-sentence eloquence of the man who was being considered for a case involving a Chow-Chow. Narrowing his eyes, he drawled, "Never did like them black-tongued devil dogs."
Juror dismissed.
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