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The following is taken verbatim from text messages between my mother and myself.

Mum: Guess who got a jury summons from the state of Texas?
Me: Oh that sucks!
Mum: YOU DID.
Me: OH NO
Mum: Seriously, you are due to report to the courthouse in two weeks.
Mum: I will be so glad to see you!
Me: Funny. Can you send it to me?
Mum: Tell them you hate Amazon.com and they'll let you off.
Mum: It's like hating America
Me: I'm an anarchist and a commie!
Mum: That's my boy. When you got a letter from the Sheriff's office I thought you'd gotten a ticket
Mum: Eating cupcakes in a no-cupcake zone
Me: I'm a rebel without a fork.
Mum: I'll bring you cookies in jail.

THANKS MUM.

Fortunately, in Austin at least, you can exempt yourself from jury duty online, and they accept "I do not live in Texas" as a valid excuse.

Comments

Re: Jury summons

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

It's based on driver's license registration, so I understand. I really need to get an Illinois license, but I'm not sure I'd pass the driver's test.

Re: Jury summons

[mysid.livejournal.com]

When does your Texas license expire?

Re: Jury summons

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

I just renewed it, not for ages -- that's why I like having a Texas one, the expiration period is really long.

Re: Jury summons

[thorinsmistress.livejournal.com]

They'd make you take the test? I just had to give up my VA license and got my Texas one when I moved.

Re: Jury summons

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Well, the Illinois DMV's website is hilariously confused about whether I will have to or not.

The other issue is that if I do, I don't...have a car...

Re: Jury summons

[thorinsmistress.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, well, the DMV. The special circle of hell.

Well, I'm glad that Austin is reasonable about that whole "not living in Texas" thing! :-)

[lunar8i8star.livejournal.com]

You don't have to take the road test. At least you shouldn't. I just swapped my Oregon license for an Illinois license a few months ago and I didn't have to take a road test. I did have to take the written but it wasn't challenging. (I did miss a question about the graduated licensing law - I'm 29, what do I care what 17 year-olds can or can't do?) If you plan on registering to vote, I'd wait until after the election at this point as it can take 30 days for your voter registration to clear.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Oh, I've been registered to vote for ages. Never miss an election, me :D

Just to clarify

[mysid.livejournal.com]

You are registered to vote in Chicago, yes? Because if you're registered to vote in Texas and just voting by absentee ballot, you may have a problem now that you've officially declared yourself a citizen of not-Texas.

Re: Just to clarify

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Oh yes -- voting in Texas, when you're me, what's the point. Plus in Chicago we have local aldermen and I definitely want a say in who represents my hood in the government :D

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Why not just get an Illinois ID, as in a non-drivers-license gov't photo ID thing?

Says the lady who's lived in California nearly five years and has not gotten a California ID ... (The Glendale DMV is a madhouse, OK?)

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Well, I do drive occasionally. And I have a passport, so no real need to get a state ID. (I also have not done it basically because I hate DMVs with all my soul. :D)

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

You needed a state ID once for a ... thing ... I don't remember. Dentist or something? You might again! And as you said, your TX DL doesn't expire for forever so you could still drive on that one.

The passport thing is why I still don't have a CA ID; I have yet to need one for address verification and I have two passports plus one expired one so official photo ID is never a problem. The only thing I've yet come across for which I'd need a CA ID is stuff where people want to copy down your DL# for identity verification, and when you whip out a passport they make the "I wasn't trained for this" face.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I needed it to prove I was me TO THE LOL OFFICE. The "limit of liability" office that runs the emergency room didn't want to take my passport. Eventually they gave up. They're probably still wondering why "Dan Starbuck" never called them back.

One time I wanted to buy Sudafed, the hardcore behind-the-counter stuff, and didn't have my driver's license, but I did have my passport. The woman at the pharmacy counter said "We only take driver's licenses."

"What do you do for people who don't drive?" I asked.

"What?"

"People who don't drive. How do they get Sudafed?"

She got a HILARIOUS look on her face. "Oh. Well. I don't know."

"Surely you must sometimes get people who don't drive here. This is the middle of downtown."

"I guess I could try entering your passport number into the computer."

"That'd be great, thanks."

AND WHAT DO YOU KNOW, apparently a document validated by the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT will totally prove that I am me to WALGREENS.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

You serial identity thief, you!

Oh man, I completely forgot about the existence of the LOL office. I even made a kitten macro for that. :D

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

I have enshrined the LOL office forever in my memory. Occasionally as a reminder to be so, so grateful I have health insurance now.

[sabra-n.livejournal.com]

I totally discovered my driver's license was expired on a failed Sudafed-buying trip. Because if your license expired a month ago you are NO LONGER YOU.

I got my roommate to go out and buy the evil drug for me instead.