-11- Max Doesn’t Steal (Anymore)
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Max used to steal women’s underwear, but he doesn’t do that anymore.
The first pair of panties he stole belonged to his sister. Max doesn’t like to think about that, because he was reprimanded so sorely when his mother caught him.
“Those are for girls!” she’d howled as she walloped his bottom. “For girls, not for boys!”
After that, he started stealing off neighbourhood clotheslines. The whole town buzzed with rumours of a p*****t who stole little girls’ underpants. Max was sure his mother knew it was him, just an innocent little boy, but she never gave him up. She was probably too humiliated by his antics.
As an adult, Max began stealing from girlfriends. He’d take a pair, a clean pair, just one, from a woman’s dresser drawer. He’d tak
