Sorry dogo, no dice. To be believed, a story needs verifiable (i.e. falsifiable) details. The name of the yungerman in question, the name of the kollel where he learned etc. I don’t know you at all, and have no reason to believe you. I don’t have any reason to disbelieve you either. Thus the need for falsifiability in the narrative; to resolve the doubt. That it isn’t forthcoming, renders the story unfalsifiable and therefore not believable. Additionally, I’m not all that impressed that R. Chaim didn’t know what schnitzel is. How is one supposed to be a posek, if he does not know the basics of how people live?
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