Dr. Kendall Crowns

After a few times, this would usually agitate him and cause him to leave his apartment in frustration.

And for a little while, the noise would be completely gone, and I could study until he returned to start the cycle over.

There was one occasion he even got so frustrated that he threw his phone across his apartment, screaming about why did his phone keep ringing and why did that person keep hanging up.

Success was achieved.

Were my tactics wrong?

Were they a little juvenile?

Yes.

Yes, they were.

But it was down to him or me at that point, and I was going to win.

We kept this game up for most of the semester.

He never took his phone off the hook, which is what I would have done if the phone kept ringing and people kept hanging up, but he didn't do it for whatever reason, and I kept calling.

and he would leave longer and longer, giving me longer periods of quiet.

But the one thing is, I could never stop the rooster from arriving on test day.

I just learned to adapt and be gone before the music started.

Eventually, my dad came up with a very reasonable solution.

One time when he was coming up to visit me, he brought with him some gun range earmuffs.

He told me this will probably take some of the edge off that noise, and it did.

I started wearing them, and it was a little easier to deal with Lane's rambunctiousness.

And things continued on for a while.

But then there was a turning point for Lane and school, and it had nothing to do with me and my phone calls.