I got summoned for jury service recently. It couldn’t have come at a busier time so I asked for it to be postponed to January. I was expecting all sorts of bureaucratic resistance, autocratic refusal (“you’ll come when we tell you to come!”) and so on.
Instead, I got a nice little letter yesterday, accepting my request for postponement and giving me a date in January to turn up. Now how good is that? So I’d like to thank those nice jury service people for being so helpful and obliging. God bless you all.