Talaski exercises her "intuition."

Fairly obvious assumption credited to women's intuition

Neighbor Trent Montgomery says both he and Talaski witnessed Blake Andrews, Talaski's boyfriend of three years, casually answer his telephone on the evening of April 28. During the ensuing conversation, Montgomery confirms Andrews to have said little more than, "I figured you'd be calling. Yes, I know what day it is," before Talaski made her presumptuous conjecture.

"I'll bet that's his ex-girlfriend," proclaimed Talaski. When questioned by Montgomery, Talaski is said to have credited her theory to "women's intuition," a popular urban myth.

However, information revealed later suggests that Talaski's presumption, though correct, was more likely to have been surmised from simple calendar awareness than by possession of a sixth female sense.

"At first, when Blake confirmed that it had been his ex on the phone, I was impressed with Kim's intuition," said Montgomery. "Later, when Blake told me that Kim is fully aware that his psycho ex-girlfriend calls him every year on the anniversary of their first date, April 28, well, I realized that Kim's 'intuition' was nothing more than a fairly obvious assumption."

May 2001