Leaping From One Subject To Another

Friend: “When’s your birthday?”

Me: “February 28th.”

Friend: “Oh, the last day of the month?”

Me: “Well, 75% of the time.”

Friend: “Huh?”

Me: “Not on leap years.”

Friend: “What’s a leap year?”

Me: “Seriously?”

Friend: “Seriously! What’s a leap year?”

Me: “Every four years, February has twenty-nine days instead of twenty-eight.”

Friend: “Why? That’s so stupid.”

Me: “It’s to regulate the timing of the year, as the Earth doesn’t rotate around the sun in exactly one year, so every four years they have to reset it with an extra day.”

Friend: “Wait, the Earth goes around the Sun?”

Me: “Okay, you’re trolling me now.”

Friend: “I am not! I thought the Earth went around the moon!”

Me: “Okay, what do we have planned today, because I feel like we’re going to be here a while…”