Is it wooden? Cause if it isn't wooden it won't work!

We have all heard the old wifes tales about how to get rid of the hicups. You can scare them away, you can say let me hear you hicup...come on let me hear you, you can drink water through a wash cloth, you can drink water through a straw, you can eat a spoon full of sugar, you can do so many things. And until yesterday I thought I had heard them all, but Shalisse pulled a new one on me. I call her over the intercom type of system thingy that we have hear at work and I tell her "Pooh, I have the hicups." And I swear on my life yall this is what she said back. "Put a wooden pencil in your mouth and drink water." I said "what?" She said "thats what they use to make us do in school, put a wooden pencil in your mouth and drink water. It has to be water." SO i tried it, it not only did not make my hicups go away, but I got to laughing so hard that I got water all over my shirt. I got kind of irritated at the whole thing so I called her and told her hey I still have the hicups, and now my shirt is all wet. She said "Is it a wooden pencil? Cause it won't work if its not wooden." I was like yes its wooden we work in the cheapest place on earth of course the pencil is wooden. So I tried it again, and this time it did make my hicups go away but it still got my shirt all wet. lol