She sat behind me on the train. Each sentence had at least three “like” references, and I found it very hard to believe what she was saying – to paraphrase, that she was like an occupational therapist student and was like totally fried from her internship and she was like telling her teacher how like totally tired she was and like, how much time she takes to like, study every night. I fully expected to see someone in her late teens, but here was a woman, roughly 28-30, getting off the train. Color me, like, totally surprised.
She has no idea how very young she sounded and how very inexperienced and worse, inept she came across by her speech. Good God, if she talks like that in the workplace and I happen to be in the office she’s in, I’m like totally getting up and leaving.
Good grief. And yes, I feel so old.
And I’m like, duh.
And she’s like, duh?
And I’m like, duuu-uuh!
My dad broke my teens from saying that. Everytime they’d say, “like…,” he’d answer right back, “Like what?” Kinda took the fun out of it. 🙂
Love the post, love the comments! Don’t so much love the “like!”
Angie, it’s how we broke my then-teenaged daughter of the “bite me” phrase. We did. We bit her. Amazing how fulfilling a request shocks them. ;))
But then she developed the “You guys are freaks!” habit. It was a trade off.