Six Degrees of Separation

I happen to live in the biggest small town you will ever visit, Omaha,NE. Seems everyone here knows the same people, related to the same people, has some type of business relationship, their children know each other - just one big, happy family. I am just amazed at the people I meet and they happen to know people I know. In Omaha, that six degrees of separation is more like four. One might have to be careful whom they date, it could be closer relation than you think! Good luck keeping a secret here. The people I've run into over the years, seem to move about in the same groups. There will be two or three circles of friends that a person will choose to associate with, and sometimes you may be invited to join another group for an occasion, or your group may have invited a new member into their microsociety, and this is how networking is accomplished. Occasionally, you run into the guy who knows everybody. No matter where you go, he'll see somebody he recognizes. I know a few people like that. I could be "that guy" if I tried harder to remember names and attach faces to them. I think I have a tendency to forget more than I remember. Networking is obviously good for business, but, to be good at it, you really have to hobnob and rub elbows with EVERYONE! I guess I don't care to whore myself out quite that much. Once in awhile, somebody comes up to me and says "hello", and I have no idea who they are. They know me , but I don't know them. For a moment, it makes me feel like a rock star, but on the same note, a little uneasy. Chances are, if they know me but I don't know them, they're further down the food chain than I am, and of no real significance in Omaha. So, I would invite you to have your peeps get in touch with my peeps, to get together, but in Omaha, chances are, we have the same peeps. See you at the family reunion/ company party/ circus.