You Like It

It's so interesting to see how people pick up other people's lingo. In college, the 9th-floor street-facing suite all picked up gestures or words or phrases from each other: A melting pot of dialect and mannerisms.

Mike, obnoxiously, has picked up "he/she likes it" from work. For example, when someone is joking with someone else over cubicle walls, giving them a hard time, a third person will say, "Hey, lay off the new guy." The jokester will then reply with: "He likes it." Mike says it constantly now.

"Mike, don't kill that spider."
"He likes it."

"Mike, stop giving your sister a hard time."
"She likes it."

"Mike, close the sliding door, the cats are going to get cold."
"They like it."


"Mike, shut the fuck up and stop saying that."

"You like it."