My dad was a preacher in the United Baptist church (the ones who breathe loudly between every few words, sounding something like "uhmm-uhh"). As a child, I thought those sounds were hiccups, and I always wondered why preaching made Dad do that...not to mention why he could make them stop so quickly after church had ended. Once when I got the hiccups I decided that I was going to be a preacher when I grew up, so that I could make them stop whenever I wanted.
A childhood belief about church
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that it was possible to die from hiccups :]Anon
- I used to think that hiccups were caused by a frog in my chest who would jump and croak.— Elizabeth
- if you stand on your nose and sing the blues you wont get hiccups for a month.Anon
- my cousin uded to belive that hiccups were caused by the food in your stomach colliding.— Christine
- i used to believe (when i was little) i could make the wind stop and start by saying, "stop" and "start"— Ali
- I used to think that church songs were pop music. Well, we did sing them in church every week...— Roxy