AIBU for thinking someone in our family should have been called to serve on a jury by now?

[LiesDoNotBecomeUs]

I've never been called and nor have any of my equally middle-aged siblings or our grown-up children or our parents.

I am not sure I'd like it - but feel it is something that should have happened by now. Is it rare?

It's very random. My partner was called up at 18 while he was at uni!

A colleague of mine (aged 29) has been called up twice while in the same job 😂

Nobody else I know has ever done it.

We live rurally and MIL was called twice. She had to get up at the arse crack of dawn and take an unreliable bus then a second one just to sit around all day in a court building all by herself in a strange town miles away from home then to go home at the end of the day. Just to do it all again the following day. She HATED it. She could only reclaim the costs afterwards so she also needed to borrow money for all the bus fares and the lunch she needed to get.

I sit every day praying I never get called. My husband uses the car for work and being in a small village I never need to leave it when DH is working. I wouldn't have the first clue how to get a bus to the big town where the court is and I really don't want to learn how either. Last time I had to get on a bus DH stood in a pile of vomit. Time before that I was harassed by some weirdo. There's a bloody good reason I drive or stay home.

DP has been called twice but cannot sit on a jury, I've never been called.

I’m doing it later this month and am very annoyed about it. I have a dc with SEN who has exams coming up and I help my aging parents (terminal cancer). I do all the donkey work for my family as dh works very long hours. He’s having to take some annual leave so I can do jury duty. It’s a poor system when I am required to leave my responsibilities like this and my dh has to take annual leave to sort it out. I feel resentful about it.

My DH is absolutely desperate to do it and is livid he's never yet been called lol. My mum was selected and didn't want to do it and managed to get excused (after being advised by a solicitor that it was extremely hard to get excused) - she just said her hearing was bad and she didn't think she would be able to follow the proceedings! She was in her 70s when selected though so maybe that's why they more readily accepted it.

It does seem like a bit of sods law going on with jury service in that everyone selected seems to really not want to do it and all the people chomping at the bit are never called!