Lets analyse the girl's reaction. Society has created an illusion of well being, continuity and control. One of the sad results is a populace largely emasculated with a false sense of entitlement. I'm going to be 20 something and beautifull forever and I DESERVE a BMW, bee sting lips and an ambient room temperature climate of 79 degrees with lemon slices in my bottled water. Thats sad, but no sadder than the popular media image of 'survivalists' who reject and THREATEN that same infallible society. When the monsters came in TREMORS who got the most laughs? Not the two bumbling heros, but the couple with a GUN COLLECTION. The girlfriend was upset, facing perhaps for the first time the realisation water comes
warm with no lemon. She reacted much like a disoriented lost hiker hiding from rescuers or survivors of a disaster blaming rescue personel for not coming fast enough. Again, it's the unfortunate displacement of individual self reliance by a society modeled on complacency.