entwiningfate | Seventh Wasp

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nonstop hiccups,
this is seriously the worst

Seventh Wasp - [written]

[It started around noon. He had been reading a new book to the mice when there's a sudden hic. It was enough to startle him and the mice and make them all jump… though Sion jumped because he hiccupped. It’s been a long time since he’d had the hiccups.

But he approached it like everyone else would! First, he held his breath… nope. Then he chugged some water in a few different ways… still not gone. There's no one around to surprise him so he couldn't try that out.

Ugh...

By the time he gets to his journal, it’s a few hours later and the hiccups have yet to stop. It's gotten very tiring and annoying. He’s run out of ideas on ways to make them stop too so there’s only one thing he can do now.]

Does anyone know of a good way to get rid of hiccups? I’ve already tried to drink water and hold my breath but neither worked.

Thank you in advanced.

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I know you said you tried drinking water, but did you try it while you're upside down? That works sometimes.

No, I didn't think to try drinking it while upside down. [A strange method but he's willing to try anything at this point]

How exactly would you drink it upside down? [DOES HE NEED TO GET A STRAW OR SOMETHING]

Well, take a big gulp of water, but don't swallow it,. Just hold it in your mouth. Then sit on a chair, but like do it upside down. Then swallow! It's kind of hard and you might need to force some of the water down, but it works pretty okay, I think.

Alright, I'll try that. Hold on. [It sounds complex but HERE GOES NOTHING.

He does exactly what she says, taking a big gulp of water, sitting upside down and swallowing the water that's in his mouth. It's definitely a... different way to do to it but he manages. He sits up when he's finished, waits then after a moment he comes back AND.... ] It didn't work.

Really?

Are you sure you were upside down enough? You weren't just kind of upside down, were you?

Edited 2013-03-29 03:40 (UTC)

Kind of upside down? [How can you be just kinda upside down]

Well, I think I was. I'm not sure how I could've been any more upside down. I was on the couch with my legs resting on the back and my head hovering above the ground.

That's pretty upside down. Just about as upside down as you can get.

Maybe you just need to drink more water! Maybe you could use a straw and just drink an entire glass upside down.

I guess I could try to drink more.

Do you know of any other methods? [Because he can't keep drinking water upside down if it doesn't work sob. Gonna go get another glass of water before she responds though]

I've heard that you can get rid of hiccups with a sudden scare. So maybe if you can get someone to scare you really bad. Maybe if they jump out at you when you're not expecting it or something!

That method does work well as a sudden surprise can disrupt your breathing pattern as well as the hiccups. Unfortunately though there's no one here [other than his mice but they don't count] that I can ask to scare or surprise me. I wouldn't want to bother my neighbors either since I don't know them very well.

That's too bad. I wonder if there's some way you can scare yourself somehow, though. But if you're trying to scare yourself you would see it coming, wouldn't you? So maybe not.

Maybe if you laugh really hard, that would help. I know laughing a lot can cause hiccups, so maybe it can get rid of them, too!

I don't think it's possible to scare yourself on purpose. [You can scare yourself on accident like seeing your reflection in a mirror when you suddenly turn around in a dark creepy room to just see it there but ON PURPOSE no... ]

Laugh? Well I suppose that is a way that could possibly disrupt the rhythm the hiccups but I can't just make myself laugh. If I were to try it would be forced and fake since there's nothing to laugh about.

Yeah, making yourself laugh is really hard but I know a totally good joke. Maybe it'll work.

[She may have messed this joke up before, but this time she's got it.]

What did the magician say to the fisherman?

[There's a pause before she writes the rest.]

Pick a ~~bass, any bass!~~ ~~trout~~ ~~minnow~~ Nevermind. It would probably help to look for a joke book or something in the library.

[She has a joke? Alright then. He waits but before he can read the punchline she scratches it out.

Huh]

Pick a what? [TELL HIM HE'S CURIOUS NOW]

[There's a somewhat long pause before she answers.]

I can't remember. I'm sorry! I really thought I had it this time! All I can remember is that it's some kind of fish.

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