How Do You Know?

I have a girl friend just name her, Umie. She is too silent but just if you don’t know her yet, right after you know her well everything will go just like a river of wors since she is actually talkative! There she goes, she has an unusual habit that is for me quite unique. Besides, this habit can make other people got mad or insulted. Everytime when she and her friends walk together, suddenly if one of her friends shouted to other people pass them by, Umie will suddenly shouted, “Hey, how do you know him/her?” This question never makes her friends happy, but otherwise they felt this question is disturbing. What is her bussiness if they know their friends, whether know or not is not her bussiness. This happens almost everytime she goes with her friends. One of her close friend even told me that she was upset with this habit. She thought by questioning like that, sounds like only Umie that can know other people.
And oneday I felt this too. I told Umie that I know a person, the member of a hiking community in his university where she is also one of the members. Suddenly she shouted, “What?? You know him? How do you know him? Oh my God…I have his cell number.” There she started, this is the habit that I heard from her friends, yeah very disturbing sounds like insulting how do you know a person that I know? If I know this person, so what is her bussiness? Then Umie initiate to send the person I know short message. I said, “why do you have to confirm it to him that I know him? Seems like you can’t believe I know this person too.” And she replied, “Cool down sister, I will do no harm to you or him, I’m just happy that the world is sooo small that you know the friend I know too. I will tell this person that I also know you!”
Suddenly I laughed. I just realized why she’s doing that ‘bad’ habit. The habit that disturbs everyone. According to her, she loves asking this question “How do you know??” because she enjoyed to feel how the world is so small that people are connected each other accoincidently and she will be satisfied if she can manage to reconnect people who has been apart so long. Just kind of a real “FRIENDSTER” in the real world. That is why she loves this question, she will begin to analyze how her friend know other friend. Fiuh…it’s exhausting for me though. Ups…so sorry Umie if you read this article, but I do really appreciate it now. I know the reason why you ask, “How do you know?”. Peace….