Do you remember the time when you tried to eat chips in theoffice but didn't want to share? Or when you wanted to fart and dropped a bookto conceal the sound, but because of poor timing, you dropped the book, thewhole class went silent, looked at you, and then you farted? Neither do I. Itdidn't happen to me. I swear.

But today, I try to be as quiet as possible. If you havewatched a movie titled The Quiet Place that tells a story about monsters thatattack sound (and everything attached to...