"She would reek of Vietnam!"

A lot of my friends are fans of How I Met Your Mother, but up until recently I had only seen a few episodes in passing. My feelings on the show were neutral. Not great, not terrible, just okay. However, when people started pointing out similarities between Robin's character and myself, my vanity got the better of me, and I started watching the show marathon-style a few weeks ago.

I'm halfway through Season 6 now. I'm getting worried that I won't know what to do with myself once I run out of episodes on Netflix, because as much as I hate to admit that I was wrong - and I seem to be doing that a lot lately - How I Met Your Mother is actually pretty good.

I get the jokes now. Turns out you have to watch it from the beginning to get the jokes. Also, I have to give credit where it's due, because many of the catchphrases I hear on a daily basis come from that show. "Legen... wait for it... dary," "Challenge accepted," "Lawyered," and even "True story" were made popular by How I Met Your Mother. I have to say though, I'm a little disappointed that my friends have no imagination whatsoever when they speak or write.

But I'm getting off track. Wow, I'm even doing the red-herring-filled narrative like Future Ted! Anyway, the whole point of this blog post is that it is absolutely uncanny how much I have in common with Robin Scherbatsky. She may be tall, Canadian, and crazy about firearms, but the differences end there.

Here are just some of the ways in which we are alike:

We're both transplants.
We're both extremely independent.
We're both tomboys.
We're both reluctant to commit to anything.
We both hate kids. Okay, hate is a strong word, but we definitely don't want kids.
We both had a short-lived career in music.
We're both skeptics.
We both like to wear boots. Then again, that's every girl. Scratch that.
We both would rather travel and live abroad than settle down.
We both say "but, um" a lot.
We both like hockey, though she definitely likes it way more than I do.
We both had unfortunate experiences in Japan.
We both love dogs.
We both can't stand it when there's a hotter girl in the room. Oops, every girl again.
We both think "shut up" is an appropriate default response.
We're both friends with a morally depraved womanizer who wears suits all the time.

True story.