Dismissed

I have been told that I have the loudest most obnoxious hiccups anyone has ever heard. Similar to that irritating loud beep from a smoke alarm in need of new batteries my hiccups are impossible to ignore. Drinking water, holding my breath, or swallowing a tablespoon of sugar, have all been repeatedly and firmly suggested with no results. Not only do my hiccups have unusually high volume but they return periodically throughout the day. Working in a fish bowl of an office with six other payroll clerks would make a case of the hiccups a group challenge to be resolved. No one could concentrate or even talk on the phone as I sounded like I may need the Heimlich maneuver every 20 seconds. It probably did not help that after each annoying interruption that erupted from my lungs I would chuckle and apologize. One day during a frustrating chronic case of hiccups the office manager asked me as nicely as she could to just go home. I was dismissed due to hiccups which solved the problem for all my co-workers.