This job has taken me to a lot of interesting and fun places. I once scoured the streets of the Dominican Republic looking for a missing high school basketball player, for example.

Another time, I wrote a column about a citizen who was suing Michael Jordan. The plaintiff looked a little bit like the NBA superstar. The man was suing Jordan for $5 million because he got stopped often in public for autographs and photos.

This week, a reader asked me a great question: