WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT
A significant part of the woodwork at Betoota Municipal Council is this week revelling in the future.
Rolling in for another week in paradise, 66-year-old town-planner Grahame Watts has reportedly kicked the working day off in style.
“Yeah, he’s up to his 4th ‘slay’ of the morning,” laughed Aisling Murphy, a 27-year-old works engineer at the chambers.
“I think his daughters or granddaughters have taught him the word, and he’s certainly not afraid to use it.”
Just months after finally letting go of ‘okay boomer,’ it’s believed Grahame was quite excited to latch onto a hip new phrase that all the kids are using.
“Apparently me teaching him how to use a pretty basic excel function was ‘slay,'” laughed another member of the team.
“He certainly has an affinity for the word, and I think it’s going to get much worse before it gets better,” she laughed.
“Bless him though, he means well.”
“He could be making tired and tortured jokes about cancel culture and not being able to say anything these days.”
“So repeated use of slay in weird contexts is fine.”
When pressed on the newfound use of the word, Grahame laughed.
“Haha, yeah apparently all the kids are using it,” said the big fella.
“And it’s a fun one to say don’t you reckon.”
Our reporter nodded, with Grahame then repeating the word multiple times, gently fondling the phonetics of the four letters.
No more to come.
