totes

In college, my bfff and I created our own language. It was mostly the shortening of words or phrases, but often we would post strings of letters on each other's Facebook walls to be deciphered. Yes, I realize we were in our twenties, but whatevs.

It was so popular that our other bfff caught on and soon, it was no bigs to say I mi yo bia, love! Meaning I miss you, bitch (used endearingly and never the whole word, only B, later to turn into bia) love you! Or to say bainyofa - meaning, balls in your face!

So you see, I'm no stranger to shortening words and being trendy, but I just CANNOT get into using the word "totes." In fact, I hate it. It makes me thing of frogs. Or handbags. Or that the person using it is a complete douche.

There really is no explanation for my hatred of this word. Hopefully none of my friends use it. If you do, just pretend you don't so I don't have to be forced to make fun of you.