Ted: You know, if you hadn't been reading the exact same book as me... We never would've met. I mean, that's destiny. Oh, look. You bought it in the same bookstore I did. On the same day. Within 10 minutes of me buying mine.
Jeanette: Uh, this is embarrassing. I wasn't gonna tell you this... but I followed you to that bookstore. I just couldn't stand the idea of not meeting you.
Ted: You followed me to the bookstore from where? H-How long have you been following me?
Jeanette: Uh, this is embarrassing. Uh, remember when you were on the cover of New York Magazine?
Ted: That was, like, a year and a half ago.
Jeanette: Yeah.
Future Ted: [v.o.] Before a man meets the woman he'll marry... he'll make one final, horrible mistake. For me, that was Jeanette.