A story from today, What do you think?

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Today at work, (I work with computers), me and two others were discussing HiFi and Stereo, and so on.
We had been talking really good about this for a good time (30 minutes or so).
Suddenly (Who I in this story will name) X said: "If you wanna try something really cool, try taking 4 speakers and
connecting them in serial, then take the two ends left and connect them to the red (positive) terminals on your
amplifier." Now I started getting really confused and didn't know what to answer. I knew that I just had to answer
SOMETHING at least! So I just said: "Yeah right". And he kept on going: "Come on, I sounds really great when you do".
(Here I didn't catch the irony until later on). Then I suddenly became BURSTED of this overwhelming feeling, I noticed
a BIG uncomftable smile on his face. And I was unable to react to this one.

And what did just happen here?
The thing that he gave me a fact that I knew was wrong!, I shutdown for a moment.
I became completely unresponsive, and I know that, cause this is deffinently not the first time this happens.
After I while I responded, and I know that it was pure gibbsh that came out of my mouth, cause I don't even remember
what I was saying.
After this the entire room was silent, X went back to his work, and I just sat and tried to figure out what happened.
For some time I know that I must have looked completely trapped in my own world, cause I almost feel that I was.
Then another person in the room called my name, and I went over to him and he showed me some of the stereo he wanted to
buy. After that I was asked by X if he could drew me to the bus-station. I think he was trying to save the relationship
here. I agreed and so he did, without saying a word the entire way. (Which is only a mile).
I was still trying to figure out what happened, but I first managed to do so in the bus, on my way home.
A propper answer would probably have been something like: "Yeah, and poorman's sound-quality too." But I figured out
this waaaay too late.

I'm still recovering over that episode!

I thought I just wanted to share this one. Mostly so I could maybe get some feedback on it.
Have you tried something like this? (Cause I have, but it mostly happend when I was younger).
What do you tend to do in this situation?
What about after?

EDIT: After the shutdown, I got a huge perspective change (or did I get a shutdown because of this?), which made me extremely sensitve (to what people would say to me, but also to stimulans like vision, sounds etc.), and I'm going to be very careful next time at work!

EDIT 2: Did he think I was stupid?, Did he think I didn't know what I was talking about?, Was it my apperance?.
I'm thinking about bringing this up at some time at work, cause it made me REALLY uncomfortable.