& - Friday, Fanuary 2, 1987 - North Share News Doug Collins ® get this straight ® TN le wae will be closed January 4 to January 29/87 See you again January 30/87 around in late-opening super- markets, emerging with easy-to- microwave Dink food. WE’VE HAD the hippies and the yuppies and now there’s something new: 1987 is going to be the Year of the Dink. Dinks with a large ‘° should not be confused with dinks, although the one can sometimes be the other, too. There must be masses of Dinks on the North Shore, so if you number among them let me be the first to wish you a Dinky New year, Dink or non-Dink, you've pro- bably never heard the expression before. I hadn't either until | saw an item about this new phenomenon in the UK's Sunday Telegraph. So remember you read about it here first. What is a Dink? Well, you can’t really be a Dink on your own, because Dinks are Double Income No Kids couples. It has also been said that a Dink is what a Yuppy wants to be when he grows up. Or when she grows up, women being well into Dinkery and sometimes even being the senior Dink. Diapers are not for Dinks, as you may have gathered. Ditto with all the other impedimenta that babies bring with them. By definition, you cannot be a Dink if you are a parent. In sophisticated climes like New - York, London and even Toronto, Dinks are also known as ‘‘empty nesters’’. But there’s more to be- ago us the 1920s and 1930s. But there were no Dinks then. Dinks are married, or at least are living together. But to be a Dink you must also belong to the upper-inconie, well-educated classes. There is no such thing asa Poor Dink, except on the now- defunct All In The Family show, where the word meant something else entirely. In addition to having no kids, the typical Dink has a mighty mortgage and ali the material ap- purtenances you can think of. Real estate salesmen love them. So do all othe: salesmen, for there is no better market than the Dink market. He may be a lawyer, she an ac- countant. Or she may be a doctor, and he a company president. They may have married and divorced, but will still be living together. That has advantages income-tax- wise, as Dinks are wont (o say. Dinks miss no tricks, With the arrival of the Dink, sociologists who may themselves be Dinks, witting or unwitting, have a whole new field in which to play. The boundless future spreads before them, just when they were being bored to death by going over all the same ground. Dinks don’t cook. No time for Dinks never peel spuds or split cabbages. Such doings are for non-Dinks. in Dinkland, there isi’t much sex. No titne for that, either. He either falls to sleep over work he’s brought home from the office, or is still at the office when non- Dinks are doing what comes naturally. She’s the same way. So it often happens that when one Dink is home, the other isn’t. In short, it's difficult for Dinks to get together, just as it’s difficult for certain species of whales to get together. This applies even though Dinks prefer the company of other Dinks. When they come up for air, that is. The more Dinks there are, the lower the population will be. If it depended on Dinks having babies, the race would die out. But the number of Dinks in the land will always: be limited. Everybody can't be a Dink, any more than everybody can be a doctor. As I say, remember where you first read about Dinks, because before you know where you are a certain journalist whose stuff ap- pears in Maclean’s magazine will be appropriating the term and let- ting you assume that he invented it, he being in the nabit of doing WE'RE PROM THE SASKAICILLWAN PAVILION. TN For Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner 1010 Park Royal South Phone: 922-1123 err OPENS ing a Dink than having no kids. There were empty nesters as long it. They dine, Dink-fashion, in restaurants. Or that sort of thing. 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