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Hey Alexander, what can we help you with?

Well, I'm starting school in a few weeks, and to accommodate all of my books I'm carrying around a giant bag with me and it's wonderful

It does everything I needed to do but it does have this Velcro strap on it and sometimes I'll arrive to class a little bit

late and I'll have to open my bag to get some books out and it is kind of loud.

So I'm just wondering what the quietest way I can employ to open up a velcro bag would be.

Do you have it with you now?

I do.

Well, let's hear it.

Okay.

So that was me just opening it up regularly. I thought a way to make it a little bit quieter,

to muffle the noise would be to open it up slowly and

that doesn't seem to work either.

Yeah, just extends the noise, doesn't it?

Let's hear it.

Let's hear that right up against the phone as well.

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