"I want the baby.
Get out of here!"
Throughout this short, short story, there is an obvious disregard for quotation marks. Usually with a lose of punctuation, there is often a lose of clarity or meaning. But, with "Popular Mechanics", the story is still easy to follow and understand who is speaking. The breaking up of this couple and the ensuing battle for the baby, is intense and very emotion-filled. None of which is lost with the loss of a some small marks. What I really want to know is the reasoning for the title. Is the popular mechanics ironic in that his lack of quotation marks isn't popular at all? Or is the "popular" referring to the society's trend of the problem of divorce/ break up and custody battle found in the story's plot itself?
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