Nautical Nonsense

At the beginning of the story I couldn't figure out if the person buying the items at the store was a girl or guy. There was a lot of unknown facts missing as I went through the story but at the very end it all came together and I understood what happened. I thought that the cashier and the guy checking out didn't even know each other at first and that the guy was some crazy freak when he took the bat to the boyfriends truck. The story was written in a different kind of way compared to the one we read in class. The one in class you always knew who was talking before we even started to read it. In this story you had to wait until after you read what the person was saying to figure out if it was the girl or guy. Personally I thought it was really weird how when the guy got home he went straight to his closet to plan what he should buy the next day at Wal-mart. He looks really desperate. Specially if he is only going to the store to buy things so he can see his ex-girlfriend. If he really wanted to see his kid I'm sure he could put more effort in it than just stalking the babies mom and saying the suggestive things he said to her on the phone surely aren't helping him out with the situation.