One time I was sitting at my desk while working in the National Insitute for the Deaf Dean's Office. 

I received a phone call. It was a Rochester Police Detective. 

After the woman mentioned her name and where she was calling from I, for one tiny instance thought that she wanted me to help her solve a murder.

I was wrong. All she wanted was an interpreter. My dreams were crushed. Then I realized that the only experience that I have with police investigation is through Lenny, my hero.

In that second, that tiny little second, I made the decision that watching too much Law and Order can, indeed distort your view of reality. Nevertheless, I was thrilled for that brief span of time where I thought I was an actual detective. 

And that is why you love me, Samuel Thomas Kendall.