Isaac and Mary Walk in the Rain, Explained：wind up

What's really going on

The tearoom and the storm are two versions of the same joke: Isaac cannot enjoy anything without arguing about it. He flirts with the idea of picking up strangers, calls a friend for company, and then spends the walk complaining about the weather he chose to go out in. The storm gives him his best line, "It's an electrical storm. You wanna wind up in an ashtray?" and also his worst behaviour, telling his companion, "Next time you want someone to walk with you, get somebody else." What saves the scene is the ending. Once the rain has soaked them both, he stops performing long enough to say the honest thing, that she looks kinda nice and is sort of pretty, which is the closest Isaac gets to affection without a joke attached.

Theme

このチャプターで学べること

• The storm turns a date into a fight and then a compliment.
• Soaking wet says drenched far better than very wet.
• Wind up hints at a bad outcome coming.
• Even Mary's praise arrives with a hedge.

発音のポイント

• blew up — Blew links into up, sounding like blew-wup.
• soaking wet — The end of soaking links into wet as if it were one word.
• kinda nice — Kinda weakens to kainda, so the stress falls on nice.