It is like ....

The other day I was on the train back home. There were two young girls sitting behind be, having a quite chatty conversation. Their voice was a little above the "private conversation" level, and i did not have my iPod that day. So i could not help overhearing part of their conversation.

Nothing special, one of the girls was the dominate talker, the other one was just the "mm-oh"er, the dominate talker talked about a party she went to sometime ago and a "nasty" guy she met in the party but could not remember his name. It went like this "I went this, like, a big party thing. and there were, like, tons of peoples there. And i was, like, really excited. Coz there were lots of people I haven't met, like, for ages. I was having a really good time, and then this guy, like just came over and just talked to me, i was like, oh my god, coz i knew this guy was like, the "nasty" guy i met in, like another party. i didn't want to talk to him but i could not remember his name too, it's like ... so embarrassing. I was like ... totally embarrassed .... " and the conversation went on and on. And i was like, totally confused by her usage of "like". It is like how she can use, like heaps of "like"s in her, like daily conversation. I could not help imagining Martin Luther King gave the famous "I have a dream" speech in,like, the latest style.

"I have, like, a dream. like one day, this nation will, like, rise up and live out, like, the true meaning of its creed, like "We hold these truths to be, like, self-evident: that all men are created, like, equal."

Brother Martin, may your soul rest in, like, peace.