What do you think about jury duty?

In many TV shows or movies jury duty is portrayed as something people try anything to avoid. What's so bad about it, why don't they want to be drafted?

Edit: thank you all for your answers. It really put some light on jury duty. I didn't know the payment was that low, so it makes a lot more sense that people try to avoid it.

In Germany there is no such thing as jury duty since we don't have a jury. But we have "Schöffen" which are ordinary people volunteer as judges aside from a professional judge (but only 2 in each case), they usually get paid up to 29€/h.

Edit 2: I didn't expect that many answers to my post and I try to read everyone of them and even answer. But I really you for all your opinions and experiences and for many very interesting stories about the court and the jury. I learned a lot which isn't usually shown in TV (the parking lot fee for example still gets me). You definitely have some good pro and contra arguments for serving in a jury. Personally I would like to take part of it if I were an American citizen.