This time there was a whole room to enjoy watching me play with my self-situated puppets motivated by their long history of taking advantage of people in sensitive situations…
First Time in Eviction Court
Apparently a 10 am appointment in the Dallas County Justice of the Peace system means a “cattle call” getting a bunch of cases on the docket to go through…starting at 10 am. So while it’s true my case could’ve been at 10 am sharp, online I did not see any indicators of how they are ordered. Honestly I don’t care, I’m a person who is honored and actually quite happy to go to Jury Duty because I feel it is extremely important and anyone who makes a joke or takes pride in skipping it is an asshole.
The Jefferson Street Government Building is fantastic. Excellent parking free, great location for public transit corridors, and once inside, it gets a lot better. The team responsible did a very skilled job with the atmosphere of the facility, because it is light tones, Earth tones, and, well, it’s something more like a nice airport terminal actually. It does not feel intimidating or negative in the space — quite the opposite — when taking notes about the color scheme, I genuinely felt a dash of hope that in this place, the bright lights and feel were positive, that good things can and do happen here.
