my eternal shame
I am a total twunt when it comes to the "inadvertant stupid comment" and usually I had no idea that X had happened to Y.

I was a juror at a high court murder trial. The accused was a poor woman, truely "simple", who had been abused by a junky/dealer B/F who was stealing her ill eldely parents Jellies [DF118s] and selling them, When she refused to go to the Docs to get more, they argued, struggled, he hit her and burned her several times with a fag, and in the ensuing fight, she ended up stabbing him once, clean through the heart. Dead. The Scene of Crime & Autopsy photos were gross

A female colleague asked what the process for the selection of jurors was in Scotland and I pointd out that the first two men who were picked were turned down by each QC. She asked why.

"oh the defense council probably wanted the symapthy vote on the jury hoping to have more women in the mix."

"Why?"

"Well, imagine you had been attacked and seriously injured, by some evil psycho and left for dead, you'd want a bit of sisterly backing on the jury"

She went really pale and stormed off with out sayng a word. I later discovered that was exactly what had happened to her 2 years previously and, without word of a lie, I had had no idea. No amount of protesting to the rest of the team would convince them I had had just plucked that from thin air.

She thought I was taking the piss, and even when we both became managers in the business we were in, never spoke to me again.

I still cringe at the thought, 13 years later.

*pales at thought and feels horrid, dirty shame*
( Fire & Forget it's the only way to be sure, Mon 28 Nov 2005, 22:17, Reply)