You may object in a whisper

A journal entry from the fictional world of the Bunker No. 0 show.

RESIDENTIAL SECTOR

Please keep your voices down after lights-out.
“It's urgent” does not make a voice quieter.
Permission to argue remains valid
the following day.

The Commandant

The notice hadn't been up long when someone added a question underneath: “Can we object in a whisper?”

Yes. I need a quiet corridor, not an absence of objections. I wrote that right below the question.

Now I'm waiting to see who'll be first to argue that a full-volume disagreement was essential to bunker safety.