Roswell G. Flemington was raised in a home where he couldn’t even have cookies because they made too much noise. At least his mother bought brownies. So when he came of age, he went to sea, and his desire to make up for not making enough noise is driving everyone else mad. He has collected all sorts of sea-themed noisemakers, from bells and whistles to actual recordings of sea battles.
Now his wife is leaving and she has afflicted him with increasingly acute hearing, so that every little noise is like an explosion, and he sees a doctor who helps him understand it is all in his head, all he needs to do is overcome the mental block, and he does. The only problem is that he goes too far in the other direction, so that now he can’t hear anything at all. He has lost his precious noise!
