We have questions and they need answers. Important, life-altering questions.

Like, how many times are you supposed to say "chugga" before you can say "choo choo?"

A parent, who goes by the username @baption0, posed a fair question in the "Too Afraid to Ask" Reddit group: "How many 'chuggas' are you supposed to say before 'choo choo'?"

"I've always said two, but now my kid is saying three. However, my kid's preschool teacher says one and it pisses me off that there arent enough chuggas for a choo; how's the train supposed to go anywhere?"

Valid point. One "chugga" is kind of strange. Honestly, though, who says just one "chugga?"

But the query got the good people of the internet thinking. Is it two? Five? Eight?

User @deadfermata said they apply the Batman theme song to the "chugga" and that's how they know how many to say.

"My rules is the same number of chuggas as we do for the batman cartoon theme song na na na na na na na na na na na na BATMAN!"

Quite a bit of folks agreed with that rule as it would make it eight "chuggas" before the first "choo."

OK, but that's eight "chuggas." EIGHT WHOLE "CHUGGAS." Isn't that a bit excessive? Are you even going to remember what song you're singing by the time you get to the sixth "chugga?"

Another Reddit user applied mathematics to answer the "chugga" question.

"Considering we Westerners fall into a 4/4 rhthym, it will be 2n where n is a positive integer. So 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 are all valid. 12 is also valid, given you hold the second choo for 1 1/2 crochets.

Of course, there is also the book "Chugga-Chugga Choo-Choo" which gives two "chuggas" before the "choo."

Investigative journalism at its finest.

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