I've got one to add. I was shadowing a lawyer for my work experience and it just so happened that I'd bought a new watch the day before (cheap and cheerful Casio, but hey, it had personality
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We went to court and I sat in the gallery as only lawyers can sit past the bar. My pupil-master asked the judge if I could sit up front, a very nice gesture that he didn't need to make. Up I went, taking my place with great trepidation.
Throughout the cross-examination, I kept nervously looking at my watch. After a while, the judge, who had noticed my behaviour, asked what was wrong. I was flabbergasted and turned mute. It was the most awkward silence and luckily, my pupil master broke the ice and managed to pass it off as a joke (something about me being late for a date).
In any case, I was very lucky as the judge found it funny and laughed it off. I ended my mini-pupillage at the firm before the case had concluded but found out later on that the client had won. Who knows, maybe my fidgety ways went towards persuading the judge
All the best,
Gavin