- Joel gives Clementine a ride home, and when she offers to let him come in and have a drink, he doesn't seem too thrilled.
- But what do you know? Joel's suddenly inside with Clementine, drinking and, um, sort of talking. Joel isn't really much of a conversationalist.
- Clementine sits uncomfortably close to Joel and tells him she knows that she's going to marry him. Okay.
- She asks him out of the blue to drive to the Charles River with her.
- Joel still seems a little uncomfortable, but they go.
- After all, she's definitely brought him out of the mundaneness of his boring life.