Today, the nine year old girl I was babysitting got the hiccups, so I told her to drink some water upside down to cure them. She ended up vomiting on the floor. FML
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A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I was babysitting a 9-year-old kid, when she got thirsty and asked for a drink. All I could find was some kind of Mexican fruit drink, but I didn't realize until too late that it was actually hard liquor. I had to scrub her mouth out with toothpaste and put her to bed to cover it all up. FML
Today, my five-year-old daughter told me she was going to throw up. I told her to rush to the bathroom. I followed her a few seconds later, only to find her sitting on the toilet and vomiting onto the floor. FML
Today, I was babysitting my baby cousin. I was lying on my back playing with her, while holding her up in the air. As I was doing that, I made cooing noises and funny faces to get her to laugh. She laughed and threw up in my mouth. FML
Today, after I finished giving my baby a bottle then burping her, I lifted her up and was bringing her in for kisses. As I was doing this, I felt this warm liquid hit my lips and slide into my mouth. I instantly pulled her back and she'd vomited. It took everything out of me not to vomit myself. FML
Today, after hours of trying to put a screaming baby to sleep, she finally fell asleep in my arms. I was so happy. Then, I got the hiccups. FML
Today, I came down with food poisoning of some sort. After hours of scrambling to the toilet to vomit and empty my bowels, my three-year-old daughter got fed up and is now trying to potty-train me. FML
Today, my daughter was feeling sick. She threw up on the floor. As I was cleaning up her vomit, she threw up on my head. Twice. FML
Today, I spun a two year old upside down, in circles. She wasn't remotely dizzy. I threw up on myself. FML
Today, my 9 year old shitblossom of a sister decided to wake me up by hocking a loogie into my mouth. FML
Today, my hiccups got so intense that I threw up in the middle of class. FML
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igg125 30
I have never heard of that trick. Looks like it doesn't work.
marjolein96 5
well, it's not good for a person to drink upside down. lesson learned today
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Comments (100)
igg125 30
I have never heard of that trick. Looks like it doesn't work.
splinteredApple 36
My teacher taught me that trick in 3rd grade. It seemed to work on the student she tried it on. I've never tried it myself.
klutz44 28
It's the only thing that has worked for me!
doodlecloud 27
I always do this and it's one of the few things that works for me. But make sure you just bend over rather than trying to do a handstand or something...
nix1993 41
It's the only thing that's ever worked for me, and I have a really sensitive gag reflex so having the hiccups has made me sick on more than one occasion. Not sure how i'd cope if the cure made me sick too...
ptoka 20
If you get sick to your stomach when upside down, such as myself, this would lead to the same result OP suffered with the babysittee.
addisonrose12 16
I learned about this from an old tv show called ZOOM. And I have tried it myself many times and if you do it right, it works.
marjolein96 5
well, it's not good for a person to drink upside down. lesson learned today
pollymo14 13
Drinking water upside down to cure hiccups is a myth. In my experience, if you try to hiccup it cures it or at least makes it better.
EvilTurtle 35
Holding my breath after I hiccup always works for me
I_Like_Dogs 28
Eating sugar works for me
shesaywha 19
At least OP didn't go for the ol' rectal massage method.
andsoitends 21
The trick where you hold your breath, swallow twice and then exhale slowly, has proven to work every single time for me (though I did have to do it a second time for the one hiccup), and anyone I suggested it to so far.
YourOpinionSucks 22
Most of the time, the cure for hiccups is to forget about them. So just try really hard to focus on something else. If they still persist, it's most likely trapped gas, or muscle spasms.
El_Boxeador 14
Well, at least I hope it worked!
lexiale 10
She puked. I would rather have a hiccuping kid than clean up their puke
reklawelyk 15
**** you people disliking 4s comment. I personally thought it was funny, he wasn't being obnoxious and didn't say anything worthy of you arse wipes disliking it.
onlychildFTW 34
I never heard of that one. But I always hold my breath for a bit and if you do that I find for me they go away almost always. Did the hiccups stop when she threw up though? Did it work?
Miss_Chevious 37
Drinking upside down would just make you choke... try taking deep breaths
simmybaby_ 13
Lucky she didn't choke! Who tells a nine year old to drink upside down?!!
sparkplug420 13
I bet that stopped the hiccups real quick
qdawg06 23
Well it stopped the hiccups, right?
DaRito 25
You should know that trick is just an old myth. YDI
doodlecloud 27
Well it might not work for everyone but it works for me and I've seen it work for others.
gothiccookies 10
Actually, as hiccups are caused by your diaphragm spasming, and leaning over a sink to drink out of the opposite side of the glass stretches those muscles it gives them a chance to "reset" and therefore does get rid of some peoples hiccups.