My hiccups have always been bad, but I never really understood just how strange they were until college. My hiccups come out like burps. Sometimes I’ll hiccup and then burp, and sometimes I’ll do both at the same time. They shake my whole body and are super hard to get rid of. I don’t know why they’re like that, but they’ve been like that for as long as I can remember.

So one day, I’m in class. I’m sitting at the back of the big amphitheater because I didn’t manage to get there before all of the good seats were taken. Then I start hiccuping. The first one snuck up on me, so my mouth was wide open, making that one as loud as possible. I closed my mouth to quiet the rest, but they were still way too loud. I didn’t really understand how loud they were until the professor actually paused her lecture and asked me if I was okay. I said I was fine and it was just hiccups, but I’m not sure she believed me, and the rest of my classmates were giving me weird looks for the rest of the day.

Back in the heyday of the Beatles, my husband was a small child, but already very interested in music and singing. He and some friends had been practicing for weeks in anticipation of a recital at church.

Unbeknownst to their parents, they had come up with a small addition to their song. (Keep in mind this was a fairly strait-laced church.)

The boys sang “Jesus Loves Me.” Everyone is smiling at the cute boys’ performance. They began to end the song; singing the line “Oh, yes, Jesus loves me.” Then my husband struck a pose and sang “With a love like that
You know you should be glad!”

I work at a small business bakery and a lot of people pay cash, this particular day our register is running out of small bills so our manager instructs us to ask customers who are making small purchases if they have smaller change. I witness this interaction between a coworker and customer.

Coworker: *Rings up an order for one pastry which is a little over $2. The customer hands him a twenty.* Do you happen to have any smaller bills today?

Customer: Smaller bills? I gave you a twenty.

Coworker: Yeah, my register is running low so I was told to ask for smaller change.

Customer: I gave you a twenty.

They go back and forth and no matter what my coworker says, the customer keeps asserting in a bewildered voice that she gave him a twenty. Apparently she’s never heard of 10, 5 or a 1 dollar bill before?

Being a pretty big fan of the TV series The Office, I couldn’t help but think that the following situation was such a Michael Scott-esque moment!

Every morning, the staff gathers together for a quick meeting. On this particular day, we welcomed a new staff member, who is very, very tall. The GM, (who is a normally great human being) makes the following comment when introducing the new guy:

“So, I hear that [new guy] is starting a basketball team!”

New guy: “Well … no.”

My friend and I used to play a very unknown facebook game where your character can be married to another player’s character for special stats. We tried to marry our female characters. To our surprised it worked. However choosing clothing and appearance was pretty gendered. We posted a suggestion to unlock all options for both genders. It was actually met. Well, mostly, I mean only females came with boobs and only males had the facial hair option. Game’s down now but it was nice while it lasted.