[s3e5] How: I Met Everyone Else

Ted’s eyes light up. “Wait... Aurora Borealis? I met her at an architecture seminar last month! She told me my design for the new library looked like ‘a frozen poem.’ I thought she was being romantic, but she might have just been describing a glacier.”

“Boring!” Barney shouts. “Look at that guy by the jukebox.” [S3E5] How I Met Everyone Else

“I don’t want to be a mystery, Barney,” Ted sighs. “I just want to meet someone who likes The Divine Comedy as much as I do.” Ted’s eyes light up

As the night goes on, the gang realizes they are all connected to the same half-dozen strangers in the bar. The waitress, the guy at the coat check, even the woman sitting alone reading a book on 18th-century masonry. I met her at an architecture seminar last month

“And thus,” Future Ted’s voice interjects, “The Nickel of Destiny was back in the wild. But that wasn’t the only person we met that night.”

“That’s ‘Quarter-Back’ Carl,” Barney explains. “I met him in ’98. I told him the jukebox only accepts coins that have been blessed by a priest. He’s been taking his spare change to St. Patrick’s Cathedral every Sunday for nine years.”