The Falling Standards Of Education

(I’m in the ticket line at a movie theater. Nearby are posters of currently showing movies, one of which is “2012.” A boy and a girl, who look about 8 and 10 respectively, are in an adjacent line, looking at the poster, and discussing how the world will actually end.)

Girl: “I heard that the whole planet is gonna turn upside down and everyone on the bottom is gonna fall off into space!”

Boy: “Does that mean everyone in South America is already falling off?”