I used to always get the hiccups from laughing too much, so I thought they were caused by smiling. So, logically, I thought the way to get rid of them was to frown a lot. Problem was, hiccupping makes me giggle, so I would physically use my fingers to hold the corners of my mouth down as I tried to rid myself of those pesky giggling hiccups.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- I used to think that hiccups were caused by a frog in my chest who would jump and croak.— Elizabeth
- my cousin uded to belive that hiccups were caused by the food in your stomach colliding.— Christine
- I used to believe that it was possible to die from hiccups :]Anon
- if you stand on your nose and sing the blues you wont get hiccups for a month.Anon
- I thought when Grandma's hens were cackling, they were giggling about some private joke in the henhouse. — Not a farm kid
- When a soldiers went AWOL in the movies, I thought they physically climbed over "A Wall".— D Rumsfeld