Monday, October 5, 2015

Twilight Zone Idea

I woke up this morning with an idea for a Twilight Zone episode.

It's about a guy who always avoids jury duty.  He starts by postponing with really lame ecuses and then just starts dumping the notices with no response.  This goes on for years.  Wife or friend or someone keeps telling him that he will get a big fine for all of this and he just keeps asking, "How do they know I even got them?"  He loves cheating the system.  Maybe some other examples to really key in on his character.  He always takes the pennies from the take a penny/leave a penny dish when he pays.  Pays senior price fo rmovies at the busy times so they don't notice.  That kind of stuff.

Anyway, he finally gets caught skipping out on jury duty and he jokes about how big the fine really could be.  A hundred dollars?  Two fifty?  It ends up since he has done this so often the joke is on him, there is no fine. He  has to appear in court.

Think about it.  He has to appear in court, in front of a jury, in front of a jury of people who couldn't get out of jury duty!!


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