"Are we going to hear some exciting news soon?"
We found out we were potentially having triplets back in mid-November... WAY to early to tell most people, but with enough certainty that we were telling family.
About 20 minutes after finding out we were having triplets, my phone rang. It was my friend Stu. He asked me, "So... are we going to hear some exciting news soon?"
Now, you have to understand that in this particular group of friends, news travels fast. Stu and I are speakers (along with ~25 other people) in a travelling conference on software engineering, and there is a mailing list that keeps everyone up-to-date on news. It is kind of a virtual water-cooler-attached-to-PA-system mailing list. Still.. I had no idea how he would have found out so fast.
"How do you know?!?!" I asked.
"Uh, I'm just asking if you are going to be going independent soon... Why... What are you talking about?"
And so Stu Halloway was the first person to know we were having triplets. I had seen Stu a few weeks before and was hinting I might leave my job; he was looking to pass some work my way.