July 3, 2012 • Page 8 shop online at www.missourivalleyshopper.com LAURA ON LIFE 1200 Sentenced To Jury Duty I love my country. I love democracy. I think it’s great that, in America, you are innocent until proven guilty by a jury of your “peers.” According to Mr. Webster, a peer is de?ned as a person of equal standing, as in rank, class or age. In other words, someone very similar to the accused person. Why then, was I, a 50-year old woman with no criminal record and a mile-long to-do list, called in to jury duty for a nineteenyear old boy accused of a dalliance with an under-aged girl? Why didn’t they call a bunch of nineteenyear old boys who had been accused of the same crime? hat in heaven’s name made me a peer to this young man? I don’t even own an iPod and I wouldn’t know what to do with it if I did. I have no idea how a nineteen year old boy thinks. Who would?... with the exception of another nineteen-year old boy. I’ve had two nineteen-year old boys of my own living with me and I still don’t know what in the world they were thinking! Girls were certainly high on the list, though. I know this because the bathroom always smelled like Axe products when they were done in there. I couldn’t, by the most amazing stretch of imagination, be considered a “peer” for this young man. So what on earth was I doing there? And what were the other people who were my peers doing there? It’s as if they simply chose our names at random! Okay, so I knew that… Put me on the case of a mom who was doing 60 in a 35 zone because her 3-year old had to potty and she forgot to put a Pull-up in her purse. That woman is my peer! Show me a woman who was caught on the outside ledge of a highrise because her kid threw his binky out there and he wouldn’t stop screaming. De?nitely a case of temporary insanity! Seat me in a jury of other moms who could have been arrested as a “Peeping Tom” for peering in the windows of a preschool to make sure their child had stopped crying. Not guilty, I say! She had no choice! Tell me of the case of a woman caught climbing a tree to break into a second story window while her children watched from a car at the curb. Been there, done that. Obviously, she locked herself and her kids out of the house! These women are my peers. I can say, Cars 1250 TRUCK DRIVERS WANTED Best Pay and Home Time! Apply Online Today over 750 Companies! One Application, Hundreds of Offers! www.HammerLaneJobs.com (MCN) 1210 Trucks For Sale: 2002 Ford Ranger ext cab, 48,000 miles, V6, automatic. (712)551-1746, if no answer leave message. 1240 Boats - Watercraft 16? Jon boat 40hp. Mercury steering wheel lots of extras, $2,800 OBO. (605)668-9100 or (605)660-9475. Laura Snyder without a doubt, that I could deliver an informed verdict on these cases. 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