Monday, July 6, 2009

Sammy Gets Interviewed

Well, Sammy went to his interview at the courthouse posing as Boyce. If you remember correctly, he had challenged himself to use the words "bodacious" and "fetal development" five separate times, and then Boyce (the real one) challenged him to use "bodacious fetal development."

Sammy said when he got to the courthouse he realized he did not want to be selected for the jury. The rest of the people there for the interviews were so magnificently awkward and disturbing that Sammy felt, even with just eight fingers I guess, like "a god." Sammy didn't mind though because he loves people. Even shy strangers end up enjoying his company because he always asks questions that make people want to keep talking. If he has any talent other than reading books and putting the most massive pile of Arby's Horsey sauce on a roast beef sandwich without having any of it drip off, it's knowing what questions people want to hear to get them to keep talking.

He said he was interviewed by a few lawyers that he assumes were from both sides of the case. He thought it would be best to try for a homerun on the first pitch, so when the first lawyer asked if he was enjoying the beautiful day thus far, Sammy said, "If the sun were a baby I bet it enjoyed bodacious fetal development." Nobody knew what to say to him, so he chewed on the corner of his thumbnail to show he was missing fingers.

Every time one of the lawyers explained something to him, he would nod thoughtfully and say, "Bodacious." He said getting five of those was easy. "Fetal development" though was much more difficult. One was already used up on his opening comment, and though he didn't remember every use, he did recall that when one of the lawyers asked him how he felt about slander laws, he said, "It depends a lot on one's fetal development." Another time he switched it to "the developing of a fetus" and hoped that wasn't cheating.

Sammy is pretty sure he's not going to get selected for the jury, but there's always a chance that one side wants a complete basketcase on the jury, especially if the case is particularly hopeless. Who knows, you might get a mis-trial or something if one of the jurors tries to eat the hair of a witness or something.