I didn't really get anything out of the story. Alasdair's Palooka outro was interesting, but if that's the kind of vibe the story was trying to give me, I didn't get it at all. I wasn't sure who I should sympathize with, or what I was supposed to be reacting to. When the story ended, I still had no idea.
I didn't hate it by any means, I just didn't understand at all what the story was trying to do.