How I Met Your Mother (2 minute date)

“I have a daughter. Her name is Lucy and she is eight. Work and baby are pretty much my life,” Stella ​​says.

‘Two minute date’ is a scene from the episode- Ten Sessions of How I Met Your Mother.

The episode starts with Ted visiting a clinic to get a butterfly tattoo on his back removed, that is where he gets attracted to Dr. Stella Zinman. She warns him that he will have to go through ten sessions over ten weeks to get the tattoo removed. During the first visit, Ted convinces her to go on a movie date, but she brings her friends along with her, as dating a patient is against AMA rules.

In the next session, Ted says he will wait until his ten sessions are over before asking for a formal date, but Stella says she will still say no. Ted, being hopelessly romantic- keeps on trying and making a good impression for the next nine weeks. He feels, over ten weeks, she will start to like him, so he decides to keep trying. He just never gives up.

She eventually confesses about her crush to Marshall; she eventually starts liking Ted. At the end of the tenth session, when Ted asks her formally, she replies saying about her daughter and how it is difficult for her to manage time between Lucy and work and that is why she never goes on a date. The time that she gets for herself is two minutes of her lunch break.

That night, when at the bar- Ted along with his friends discusses this, he realizes that Stella never actually said ‘no’, just that she did not have time. That is when he decides to take her on a ‘Two Minute Date’ during her lunchtime.

The date starts with dinner at a table at the café next door to her clinic and a "movie" in clips at the electronics store two doors down, with help from Ranjit and Wendy the Waitress. The two share a kiss at the end of the date, and Stella promises to call if she ever has time. In the next few episodes, she calls him, and they almost get married.

The episode starts with Ted telling his kids, “Kids, sometimes in life you see someone, and you instantly know- this is the person for you.”

This made me realize, why we cannot be as hopelessly passionate about something as Ted? Why cannot we trust our instincts or put in those extra efforts to convert every no into yes? Why do we love to believe in things the way they seem to vanilla eyes? Why don't we always read in-between the lines? Fair enough that everyone made fun of Ted, but is it a passion if you are not laughed at?

The episode ends with the lines, “Kids, that’s how you convert a no into yes.”