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So you may be sitting at home, or at work for that matter, reading this blog and the first aspect that will jump out at you is the name “Twinks Who Buy Drinks.” It may cause you to scratch your head, look confused, or a very small portion of you may understand what I am trying to highlight. However, since most are probably not the ladder please allow me to explain.

The concept that many may have of a “twink” is a young twenty something that prances around from bar to bar looking for that “special” person more than likely just for the night. They carry just enough cash to pay covers and maybe buy one drink. The rest of their drinks they plan to snag from older gentleman who wish to take them home. They engage in mind-numbingly stupid banter just to get attention or look “sexy” until they find that “special” someone.

Unfortunately this stereotype does hold true for some and we all know at least a few. They are the ones always looking for a free drink, free lunch, free dinner or god-forbid all three! However I have noticed that this negative stereotype has been taken too far and as a “twink” myself I would like to set the record straight that many of us are not like that. Furthermore, not all men in their 30’s, 40’s, or 50’s that we are friends with are kept around simply because they buy us drinks.

Many of us are successful. We are college educated professional individuals. Some of us have started our own companies, are self-employed, are in the business world, are PhD students and Med Students. Some of us own our own places, some rent. We volunteer in the local community and we give back. We are educated beyond the walls of the institutions where we attended school by reading books, traveling, attending theater, and learning from those we know to be much wiser.

Some of us do have friends that are older than us, in some cases twice our age. However, we enjoy their company, we enjoy their wisdom, but most importantly we enjoy their friendship and who they are as people. While we may get bought drinks now and then we also reciprocate by buying drinks and of course the occasional shot.

We may play hard, but we work just as hard if not harder.

Unfortunately this does not describe all of us. There are still those who freeload off anyone willing to give them the time of day and they cry about the little problems they have to anyone who will listen. If you are reading this and you are one of these lost souls I challenge you to grow up and act your age, yes that is right, your age! There is nothing wrong with being 23 and hitting the bars every night, but there is something wrong if you do that and only that. If you do not go to work and expect others to pay for your drinks, if you cry about your problems instead of fixing them, and if you only hang around with people because they take care of you but you refuse to give anything back in return. I challenge you to turn the stereotype around.

I am a Twink Who Buys Drinks  and proud of it