I like this story because it shows people have skills outside of their career title.
On a few occasions I have heard university types discount people based solely on their area of study, and it is a flawed logic conclusion.
One was: an old war vet neighbour saw plants growing on our fence line and he cautioned that we should remove them as they were deadly nightshade (we had kids and pets in the yard). A uni type came by and scoffed if he's not a botanist then don't worry about it.
Another one was: A person asking for a lend of an electrical theory paper for their partner to read. The holder of the paper said what does your partner do? They replied electrician. So the paper holder says no, this is way over their heads, they wouldn't understand it. I found that really an odd take, because I have no quantum theory training or gene editing training, but if you give me a science article I can read through and enjoy learning about new techniques or ideas even if I couldn't do the calculations shown or understand how to build a therapy vector.