"Like, for reals?"

Have you ever noticed that there's a plethora of the word "like" inserted in odd places in the younger generations sentence syntax?

For example:
"Could I, like, get a chocolate ice cream cone? Like, with the dark fudge swirl, cu'z like, I don't want the one that has like, no swirl..."

For reals. I hear stuff like this all of the time. And I think that people are quite intelligent, but no matter who a person is (like a graduate with a PHd or like, a high school student) if one says "like" every other word, one does Not sound incredibly intelligent. I get so hung up on counting "likes" in a sentence, I don't hear what the person is actually saying. I'm sure I've missed something important because of that, haha. (like, I won a million dollars from the lottery).

Anyway. "Like" has now ceased to be a word to me. (you know when you read or say something over over and over again, it sounds odd or doesn't look right? yeah, that just happened).

So I actually have some chocolate ice cream with a swirl in my freezer, so... I'm gonna go eat some. :)