Deflation

So I raced around to tell a colleague (who's helping my other colleague knit his Dr Who scarf - he's not in yet because he's freelance and keeps weird hours, but I'm waiting to tell him too) the exciting news about the new knitting cafe, prefaced with the line "I have big news" and she burst out laughing and said "I thought you were going to tell me George Clooney was coming to visit us". What's wrong with people?