Little Jeffrey woke up one day and decided he was going to go to the zoo. So he set aside a date when he would skip school and go to the zoo. Then he got a map of the zoo and planned out his exact route so that he could make it through the zoo in one day and get to see all the animals. Then he did all sorts of chores around the house so that he could earn the money to go there. His excitement just kept building until finally the day came!
But then he got sick and decided not to go.
Fourteen years later, he got a job at the zoo as a poop-shoveler. He shoveled poop for the rest of his life until he died and was eaten by one of the elephants he cared for.
The End.
To say that How I met my Husband is misleading is practically and understatement. The vast majority of the story seems to build up Chris Watters. Oh yeah, the protagonist is going to meet her husband in this story! I bet it's Christ Watters, the mysterious and terribly dashing pilot fellow. Oh yeah, things are heating up now, they're totally gonna get hitched. Wait, no, mailman, what? yeah, misleading. However, there's two points to this, I suppose. Firstly, nobody should just wait around for something to happen. Edie was waiting around for Chris to contact her but eventually gave up because she can't, and shouldn't have to, wait around forever. If there's something you want, go get it; don't wait around for it to happen. Secondly, it would be boring if they ended up together. Anybody could have called that. It's a story about meeting her husband, I bet she's going to meet her husband at some point, and Chris Watters is the only prominent male character, really. It's more interesting this way, and also sort of implies that the author is saying that generally things don't go as planned. The reader just cruises along the story, anticipating the obvious ending, and the author just smacks them down "HA! this is the real world, fool!" At least that's how I imagine things happen. It's probably not very accurate.
You ate Jeffrey!
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