Replacing “awesome”

Last night at dinner, Cathy and I decided that we have to remove “awesome” from our vocabularies. I realized that in the last two weeks I have said something was “awesome” to a mortgage broker, a real estate agent, a home inspector, a developer, and a lawyer. Not including the umpteen hundred times I said it to friends and family.

“That’s awesome! Thanks for finding the mortgage for me!”

Awesome will now be replaced with “fantastic” until “fantastic” becomes annoying. But fantastic will never sound as ignorant as awesome currently does.

“We were going to give her a low interest rate, but then she said it was ‘awesome,’ so we upped it 3 points. All is fair in the mortgage biz!”