And sure enough, I had. I had hooked all these giant paper clips and binder clips to the rotating axis, so that I could spin the outside knob and make an unholy racket with incredible ease. And I did. Oh, how I turned the noise knob that day! I'm half convinced that it's the reason my boss let us out two hours early yesterday.
And now it sits up there, staring down at me again, daring me to make more incessant noise. It knows me. It knows what I want to do....