So, my friend and I are in a CJ earlier today and I could tell during the cog round there were going to be problems when a certain mouse had an attitude problem and another on my side was apparently freezing up intermittently.
We make it to scale round with 5 on the jury (if I remember correctly), nine cogs to stun and all the gavels. More jurors would have helped, but it could also have been worse. I was prepared for a possibly long but victorious battle.
I like scaling and stunning. I usually stun because that's generally the most difficult, and usually there are plently of scalers. So, I headed over to the cogs and began to stun, then a certain young duck next to me whispers, saying I need to scale. I'll admit I really don't like it when ppl tell me what they think I should be doing (If you think there's too many people stunning then YOU go scale). HOWEVER, I was on my lower 109 laffer - one of the smallest in the group - and if she was going to be more comfortable with me scaling and that would keep
her mind on the battle at hand and not on the rest of us, that's what I would do. Again, I like doing either one.
I looked over toward the ninth cog to make sure it was covered, and it was, so, without a word, I headed over to the scales where a couple of toons and the mouse with the attitude are trying to maneuver the gavels and each other and get their 26 peices of evidence in the pan.
Can you guess what happens next? The mouse with the attitude says, "You need to stun the cogs."
Imagine that! At that point I knew this battle was over before it was hardly begun. The mouse was already crying for a tune up, and someone obliged him. I was almost at full laff, still, so he must have been getting hit by the gavels. Anyway, after being tuned he went for more evidence, came back, and again said, "You need to stun the cogs." I wasn't moving from my position this time, only to have the duck say the same thing. If he thought there were too many scalers, he could go stun.
Instead he said "Bye" and promptly left the battle. A few miutes later a couple more did, then everyone else, and, lastly, my friend and I.
But, that battle could easily have been won (sheesh - 7 out of 8 of us were Big Wigs, it wasnt like we weren't experienced!). If everyone would have just done their job and not worried about whether there was one more peron stunning or scaling than they thought was ideal, we could shortly have been headed for the DA offices instead of trying to get through the shuffling and onto another elevator.
If you see there is a need for more scalers or more stunners, then go do it. Don't ask somebody else to. I've done lots of CJ's with one more person or one less person scaling or stunning than I thought was necessary and we still
won. It's not a big deal if you'll just keep working TOGETHER and have your mind on what YOU are doing and not on what you think somebody else should be doing.
Ok, (Phew!) I feel better now. Good luck and have fun!
