I’ve made a new friend at work. His name is Mark.

He’s 16 and works in the produce department at our grocery store. Mark’s favourite word is “chill”, and at first I was pleased when he described something I did this way. I’m not above a teenager thinking I’m cool.

….Until I realized he describes everything as chill. I really probably should have seen this coming. Teenagers are so fickle. Mark’s mom packed him a lunch today- chill. He went biking with his friends- it was chill. We’ve got hotdogs on sale- chill.

I pointed this out to him the other day and he admitted that he does use the word “chill” a lot. But he also assured me that I’m ‘pretty chill’, which I’m told is like next level chill. So now I know for sure he’s not bullshitting me.

Mark also really respects this guy Dilan at work because Dilan is ‘the chillest person “ he knows. I don’t want to crush Mark’s dreams or anything but I really don’t think anyone wants to be as chill as Dilan. Dilan is so chill he’s almost comatose.

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