shebbesonian- I am just repeating the story published in Mishapacha as it was told by a family member, you can decide whether to believe it or not. I repeated it here only because it was already made public by the family. It was meant as an example of a type of gadol who has no shaychus to mundane household matters, even though he obviously understands these issues from a halachic standpoint.
The lesson behind such a story for us is to appreciate how much a gadol can be totally immersed in Torah.