This past spring break  I was in the kitchen making some lemonade for the whole family to enjoy. I couldn’t wait to be done to enjoy my first cold glass. All of a sudden,hiccup, hiccup, hiccup! Oh no. The hiccups, have come back to haunt me again! There is nothing that I dislike more. Unfortunately, whenever I get the hiccups I have to wait it off. It is almost like a teasing game. Just when I think it’s gone , it comes  back  even stronger. I have tried all of the recommended remedies: holding your breath, drinking water,and trying to scare the hiccups away. But its all a lie! So I went to the only place where I might be lucky enough to find an answer, the internet. The site I decided to go to was Answers.com and then I typed  “cure for hiccups”. The site gave many suggestions. Some were very reasonable, some were just plain silly. Here are a couple of suggestions that were unreasonable . The first one said: ”Get bucket of water. Then, stick your head into the bucket of water 3 times and pull it out”.  Another suggested to “ Tilt your head back, plug your nose, roll your  eyes 7-10 times and say "vavavavava". Repeat steps once or twice”. Another  one advised you to “Stand on your head”. I mean, don’t you think that’s going a little far just for the hiccups? Now here are some more reasonable ways to cure the hiccups. “Eat a piece of dry bread slowly”, “Gulp down a glass of water”,      “Swallow 3 times with your mouth closed.”.  But  the one that caught my attention and was easy enough to do was to eat a tablespoon of sugar.  So I quickly searched for some sugar and gulped it down. I waited patiently for about one to two minutes and bam!, my hiccups went away.

 

Just like Natalie, I found  out that one tablespoon of sugar can cure a case of the hiccups. So the next time you get it, just try it. If you really  think about it, what do you have to lose, but the hiccups.