to jothar:
amazing that someone could twist the woman’s words around in this way. and consider doing so being dun lcaf zchus.
I actually heard a radio program (over a year ago at least)
in which a woman from eretz yisroel described a minor life problem she had, and how she stood before the rebbes picture and began,
“Oh rebbe, I ….”.
I am not making this up.
The rebbe answered her prayer and appeared before her school age daughter and gave her a dollar and some advice, after which he disappeared! not avodah zara?!!!!!
of course that doesn’t say anything about the woman in your story,
but her words are bad enough. No practicing Jew would ever use such an expression and mean he should be a melitz yosher.