Overheard in Dressing Room

At Target, trying on maternity pants (a lost cause!!) I overheard the following conversation between a young teen & her mom(?)

Teen: Yeah, Katie's dad died of brain cancer.
Mom: (concerned voice) Oh? Really? How did you hear that?
Teen: Um, yeah, cause he had skin cancer,....... and they had to remove his ear, ......and then there was this hole in his head, and the sun, um........got in there to his brain. And that was what killed him. (rustling noises of changing clothes)
Mom: (same voice) Did Katie tell you that?

Me, in other room: (trying hard not to laugh out loud)

Oh yeah, and rejecting pants. Are you KIDDING me? White linen is SO not twin pregnancy ready.

Do you think that the girl was making this up, or had a really really bad understanding of anatomy, or did her friend Katie really say this (and/or was Katie making it up)? Do you really think anyone there believed that the sun "getting to his brain" through his ear hole would happen? There are all kinds of things about this conversation that made me want to laugh out loud. The credulity of the mom's voice, the teen's description (which sounded very much like she was reaching-- therefore, making me think she was making it up). The fact that the mom didn't explain that it was FREAKIN' IMPOSSIBLE for that to happen.

Did you ever see Joe Vs the Volcano*? How the doctor said he had a Brain Cloud? That's what this reminded me of. A Brain Cloud. Somewhere near the end of the movie, one of the characters played by Meg Ryan says something like "You didn't get a second opinion on something called a brain cloud?"

But you know, the sun getting in there could clear that brain cloud right up. Dry up the precipitates and everything. Too bad he didn't have one before the old hole in the ear thing.

*a sorely under-rated, odd little movie.