I’m sure there have been many times in my life when I have just known.  Actually it’s getting late right now and I can’t think of any times, but still.  You know what I mean?  Those times when you can just feel it (whatever “it” may be)?  You can just feel it in your bones.  No, not like your grandpa sitting in his rocker on the porch feeling the weather changing.  With this whole pregnancy and not knowing the sex of the baby, I have heard this conversation over and over.  My wife just knows it’s a girl.  My sister knows it’s a girl.  One of my best friend’s wife, who I haven’t seen in several months, just knew it’s a girl.  Even the random lady on the street that we had never seen before knew that it was a girl.  Crazy.

Well, I have decided that this knowing is a girl thing.  I was at first thinking it was just a pregnancy thing, but then all the other girls started chiming in.  What I’m struggling to recall is a time that a guy said, “Oh, it’s a boy/girl. I just know it.”  That never happened.  Why is that?  Is there some sort of 6th sense that girls have that no matter if they have been pregnant or not, they can just tell?  Makes me wonder what else she may “just know”.

I don’t have it.  I may get that gut feeling for plenty of other things (I’m gonna get trips, the River is going to win the pot, the next note in the song, the words to the brand new song, the next play called, the interception coming, etc,) but this is just not an area that I just know about.  I just knew that the baby would be one or the other and that the doctor would fill me in when I needed to know.  That’s all I knew.  So what else am I going to find out after every female on the planet because I didn’t already “just know”?