Higher Education

Mike asked Molly: “Who’re we meeting for dinner?”

“Ike and Milly.”

“Milly’s your best pal, but Ike. Yikes. Mr. Know It All.”

“Ike is so smart. Don’t you like his talking about space/time? How Einstein said there were no real divisions among past, present and future. That it was only illusion?’

“Bor-ring. When he gets going, I’m swept over the event horizon into a black hole.”

“And you act like you grew up in one. So rude and uncouth. At least you take me back to anthropology class.”

“Huhn?”

“What it was like when knuckle dragging Neanderthals roamed the earth.”