Can understand her read on it, and see it differently. Women’s smiles are powerful, no wonder men try to elicit them with lame comments on the street. He gets one, or a laugh and a smartass comment = win, especially because so rare. He doesn’t, he can add it to his “women have no sense of humour” log, also a win, if not as sweet. No doubt the dude could have just come from raping someone, more likely he was going home to a woman wreathed in smiles, like most men do.