I don't know what the fuss is about .... he wanted to hire somebody that could COMMUNICATE in addition to having technical skills. And the interviewee had poor communication skills ... his 3 word response following by a thundering silence underlined that.It's quite possible he had great technical skills, but that isn't just what the position was looking for. (Well to be honest, I can't think of too many positions that would welcome communications skills that poor.)
And come on, what happened to the value of basic common sense?! We've all played the interview game before, we know they ask stupid questions like "what's your best/worst quality". If your common sense can't get you through that situation, what about on the job? Cause god knows, every job will have similarly stupid situations your common sense will have to navigate you through.
I agree ... "I'm extremely lazy" can be a great START to answering that question ... but it's just a START. You need to finish it off with something like "but that lazy streak just helps me get stuff done at work ... (queue up all the really helpful time/space/money saving automations you've created)". Of course you need a bit of bravado to pull it off ... if you sound nervous you'll just sound silly.