Okay, I know I'd be the dumb grandma in this scene but I'm totally missing the "disarming" part. I say Bush is a good man...you agree, which if you are a raving moonbat would definitely make myself and every other person in line disintegrate into fits of laughter. Still, after all the years of him being accused of being evil (probably the mildest thing you said, BTW), YOU saying he's a good man, even IF you qualify it with your opinion of him as president would be a MAJOR admission on YOUR part, while I've only said what I believed all along. It's sort of akin to Bin Laden emerging from his cave and converting to Christianity while promising to help little Cindy Lou Who put the star atop the Christmas tree, or Bambi and Thumper raising the Titanic with a crow bar, or finally understanding why the hell that bunny is wearing a pancake on his head. But perhaps you should consider...maybe they weren't laughing at the little old lady, maybe they were laughing at you. I mean, it's you who went on and on and on. Perhaps their laughter was due to how inappropriate, even rude your behavior was, not having enough class, enough tact to simply engage in the kind of lighthearted small talk one expects in supermarket checkout lines, but even while the guy is on his way out and you're about to anoint your messiah, you still can't let it go. Of course, being so completely self-absorbed I'm sure you never considered the laughter could be directed AT you instead of WITH you.
Cindie