Kind of ironic, since I'm a Canadian living in the US and and every time it comes up, people tell me about who they know that lives in Canada. I realize they are just being polite, they don't expect me to know these people, but I can't help but feel that it's a little ridiculous. How the hell would I know Frank?
My girlfriend always does this to people when she finds out they went to x university. "Oh do you know this or that person". A university with 100k students.
Some people's brains don't consider scale/space when hearing a familiar connection. :p
It happens. I was once in SF talking to a total stranger from
LA (pop ~4m) and when I mentioned I grew up in Dallas (pop ~1.3m), she said "oh, do you know [X]?" And I did.
