Dr. Kendall Crowns

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.

It was during the 1993 national championship game for the NCAA tournament in basketball, or March Madness.

Kansas University was playing the North Carolina Tar Heels, and the winner would be crowned the NCAA champion.

The next day, though, after the game, we were scheduled to have several very critical tests, but the professors said if Kansas University won,

the tests would be postponed for a few days.

But if they lost, the tests would proceed as normal.

All my classmates were abuzz with, oh, if they win, we don't have to take the test for another few days and we'll have more time to study.