Hiccup Cures

I've been collecting hiccup cures for years and today I'll like to share a few of the more interesting ones with you.

When I was still teaching high school, if a student got the hiccups, I'd slowly meander my way over to where he was sitting. I'd then move behind his desk, reading a poem or leading a discussion or something, and would then bend down and yell, "Boo!"

Believe me, the hiccups went away in a hurry.

A similar technique that works best with an adult male with the hiccups is to walk up to him and look him straight in the eye and then say, I heard about you and my wife, and I don't like it one bit.

If it's a female friend or acquaintance of co-worker with the hiccups, approach them in the same serious manner and say, I can't believe the boss fired you this morning.

Both of these techniques will stop hiccups faster than you can say, "I'd eat a bicycle seat while peeling a grapefruit before I'd go back to drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes."

Finally, I learned this hiccup cure from the Internet...

Go up to someone with the hiccups and say, "I'll give you ten dollars if you can hiccup again."

That's it for Monday afternoon.

Chet Day
Editor, The Health Circus
http://chetday.com