Many years ago, at a tech/startup networking event in Palo Alto, I found myself unexpectedly being interviewed for a job I didn’t want, couldn’t do, and wouldn’t be paid for by a guy I’d never want to work with.
“It’s good that you have a background in the industry, tell me why you would be a good partner for this project,” he demanded smugly. I was startled, busy, and not unlike a woman at the bar getting away from a creeper by saying she has a boyfriend, I figured it would just be easier to explain (several times, because he wasn’t listening) that I was not a developer, rather than ask him why the hell he ever thought I was trying to get this “job” to begin with.