Have you ever noticed this?

I have.

If I am alone and I spill something, break something, cut myself, do something stupid or have something stupid happen to me, my reaction is ….

Drum-roll-sound-effect

… SILENCE … loud, audacious silence I say nothing, grunt nothing, shout nothing.

That tree fell in the forest and no one heard a thing because there was nothing to be heard.

Which means …

I guess when I grunt and shout over such things, I must be playing to the audience and there must be a reason I do.

When I am alone, I just stop and clean it, fix it, or bandage it.

On the other hand …. sometimes it really does matter and we ought to say something: