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Your scenario sounds okay and reasonable. However, I think the issue was laughing off the affirmative response. Why would you laugh at the response unless you

• stagbeetle 10y ago
  > Why would you laugh at the response unless you don't believe someone? It's a way to try and break the awkwardness of just a one-word answer. We can't tell the tone this man had, or how the author perceived that tone, just from the writing, but I like to use Hanlon's razor liberally. I think it's a moot point using only one datum, especially one as subjective as experience, in argument though.