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Speaking of 'lazy' expressions, there's another type that drives my nuts. I call it 'lazy tongue disease'; it's when an 's' is added to the end of a word that normally ends in a consonant. For example, "K-Marts", "Walmarts", "the vets", and even "anyways" (although that is listed in the dictionary.) It's as if the basic muscles of the mouth are like a baby's, unable to end a word on a 'hard' sound; there has to be a smooth, soft, ending. Finally, since the group therapy session is in full swing, 'up-talking' also drives me nuts. 'Up-talking' is the expression given to the verbal style where one ends every clause, statement, or sentence with a question-like intonation: "Today I went to the stoRE? And then I went to the barBER? ..." I like to interject with "I don't know; did you?". End of conversation.