DikaWolf

Player (plā'ər) n. One who participates in a game or sport. It had only been a year since it was legal for me to drink alcohol, and already that right was in constant abuse. It wasn't that I would spend all my nights in drinking binges, though some nights this was the case. It wasn't that I intentionally behaved recklessly and endangered other people's lives through my actions, though there were times I didn't care enough to notice if I did. I was young, enjoying the thrills of being young, and the clubs of San Francisco, California were my playground. Part of my nightly sport was the roguish pursuit of women, to approach them strategically, to flatter them into submission, and to claim my prize at the end. It was all a big game to me, like the children's game demeaningly titled, Chinese Tag. Contrary to what the name denotes, the game had not come from and had little to do with China. Adding the label Chinese to any existing thing was the Western way of asserting it was a