Hello Everybody!
It’s raining outside like crazy today!!! I had to go to jury duty this morning how bout @ 7:45 am. When I got there the parking lot was on jam, $10.00 to park!! I’m still trying to figure out, how do you have to go to jury duty and pay that much to park!! Thats just deep to me, why couldnt they have an area for Jury Duty only people. Even though they’re going to send me a check for $25.00 ( whoop-de-doo) what good is that gonna do Cree when she have to park today? Then I had to snack @ lunch time, which was $4.00. So after that, that leaves me with $11.00. LOL I aint even mad, I met some nice people today.
I was looking cute today, well , except my hair, it was so wet it looked like a wet baby doll head with grease in it. LOL
Security aint no joke either since 911, we couldnt take in cell phones at all. The only people who could bring in cell phones for communication was the Lawyers. That was cool, but the dogone phone booth was taking people’s quarters. Jury Duty wasnt that bad, its just the sitting and not knowing whats next or what you have to do. I sat there watching people and how they respond to things, I had several out bust, yall Im silly and when I see stuff I laugh, not at nothing bad, or personal issues, people crack me up. Especially their facial expression, the way they take things, makes me laugh. It was quiet as a Church mouse when everybody first get there, thats when people are getting the feel of whats going on, and checking things out. But as soon as time go on, we start getting off the hook, talking and giggling loud with the people on our row and stuff.
As, I sitting there trying not to have any more laughing outbust, I had to think about something that would make me cry, so that I would’nt laugh. But the lady next to me, kept noticing where my eyes were landing and would laugh when I would. Man she was my gurl, she and these other older white ladies, were soooooooooo pretty. She looks just like Betty White, from the Golden gurls. We sat up and laughed our butts off. She is so funny. She was telling me stories about how she kept getting out of jury duty and this time she had to come. Her name is Ms. Dorthy, next to her was Ms. Linda ,and Ms. Vikki sat right across from us. We all sat there talking and having a good time, people were looking at us, not acting funny, but you can tell they wanted to know what we were laughing about. They talked about their kids, and mothers. And you know when one of us were called, it was like an Ahhhhhhh moment for us, we were so connected that we didnt want the other to go.
At break time I went directly next door inside the building Frank Murphy Hall of Justice, to get me a snack. I bought a Pepsi, some pretzels, and a bag of chips. I gets over to the Jury room, and I started eating my chips, grabbed my pop opened it up and took a squig, I was like dang this taste funny. So, Im like well maybe its these chips, I had tasted those kind before, but I was giving the Pepsi the benefit of the doubt. So, I took another sip, and I was like naw, thats it, let me go and get another kind. To make sure it aint me, I checked the cap and yep, just as I thought it was expired, the date said August 13, 2007. What does that tell you? That pop was made a looooooooooong time ago. So I gets over there the lines are off the hook. I went up to the lady who is an arabic or something, and said in my nice sweet Lacrease voice ” maam this pop taste old”. So she looks at me and start screaming LOOK, YOU DRUNK IT”!! Just hollering at me like I was her 8 year old. I got maddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd! I said let me tell you something, look at this pop I ONLY TOOK 2 SIPS, THIS PEPSI IS OUT OUTDATED AND EXPIRED, YOU GONE GIVE ME ANOTHER ONE. So she looks at it, because she thought that I wanted my money back, and said “Go GET ANOTHER ONE, GET SOMETHING ELSE DONT GET A PEPSI”!! I said do you think Im going to get another Pepsi and its expired? We were going at it, I said dayummmmmmmmmmmmmm, Im having a good day, and you don pissed me off!!!!!!!!! I wanted to choke that lady. It didnt have to be like that, if she wasnt so in a hurry to get that next dollar, had she looked at my pop to see that I didnt drink much at all, we would have been cool. I guess she thought I got my few sips out of it, and wanted my money back. Im 40 years old, gurl please I rather be sitting my fatt butt ova in the other room snacking on my snack, with my new gurls, laughing and giggling, than to be marching ova here, arguing with YOU, wanting $1.50 back!!! I’m a cashier for Walmart, I drink Pepsi’s errday, all I want to do is enjoy my lunch.
Anyway,
Before lunch time, it was about 150-200 people there. I wanted to stand up and say to the people that if anyone needed some lunch money that I had a few extra dollars for them. Cause let me tell you, I know what’s it like to be somewhere, and all you have is yourself there. You dont have lunch money, phone booth money or anything. I know that feeling. And so I kept having this urge to stand up and see if their was somebody who needed money.
But I didnt do it.
So later on as the day was turning old and there are about 30 people who didnt go out side or into the hall way for lunch. I heard this young white gurl on the phone ( we couldnt take in cell phones into the building) telling someone that she was mad because they told us that we had to stay till after 2 o clock instead of going home with the others who had left at about 12:30, and that she forgot her money in the car, and her book that she had bought to read. Her friend had dropped her off, and that she was hungary. So after she got off the phone, guess who she sat by out of all the 300 chairs there? ME!!! 
She started telling me that she didnt have any money on her, and that how hard it is for her and her boyfriend with their one child to feed with either of them working. So, after she finished I said to her, I will give you a couple dollars to go next door to the snack house to get you something to eat. She looked like she wanted to take it, but she still resist. So, I said to myself if I keep talking to her, she will feel comfortable with me and she would eventually take it. We sat and talked for a good while, when I said again, gurl here~~~~ take these few dollars go and get you som
ething to eat, this time she took it and thanked me so much. I said gurllllllllllll this is no problem, I said I have been in the same situation times and time again with no money, its a honor to be able to help you. She went, came back and we talked and laughed, till they told us @ 1:40 we could go home!!!
All I kept saying was Thank you Jesus for sending her to me, cause he know how bad I wanted to bless someone. He knew. I try to be sensitve to the needs of others, and help them when I can. Im like this alllll the time, and so thats why I look back at times and see that God always helps me out of jams, makes me wonder when help is sent my way, did someone ask God to be a blessing to someone today, and it was me? Its hard out here, but we as seasoned Christians cant be about God bless you, and I’m praying for you all the time, we have got to be about action. And see I know first hand about that, cause God is/has taken me out of my comfort zone of this very same situation. Its time to be a hands on Christian, and there’s a time to be a praying Christian. I’m going to be more and more senstive to the needs of others. There are so many people out there that throw out hints and that are not as outspoken and upfront as myself. If we would be more senstive we could help out others in a heartbeat.
Im closing for now, I will talk to you all tomorrow~
Cree
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