"Like" is a terrible disease that plagues California. Everyone says it. I like say it all the time too. It's hard not to when everyone says it. I suppose it's like parts of Canada when they say "eh?" The other day I parked the car and there were kids out there and one girl said it like every other word. This employee came from Chicago. She says it 50 times per paragraph. This girl came from Tenesee, she says it. It seems to pass it's way around the whole US.