Posted by Mark - IN. on June 17, 2008 at 22:44:03 from (205.188.117.74):
In Reply to: amish posted by ken in texas on June 17, 2008 at 14:14:12:
Guess it all depends on the elders or Bishops. I've lived amongst and around the Amish all of my life. I've seen buggies with rubber tires. On one side of the road I've seen electricity and non-enclosed buggies that required umbrellas during bad weather, and on the other side of the road enclosed buggies and no electricity. I nearly bought a farm from the Amish where the house and barn had electricity and air conditioning (house) but they weren't allowed to use it. They used oil lamps and a LP gas powered refridgerator, and had indoor plumbing all AG hose and valves, but weren't allowed to use that either. I've seen Amish with cellphones, and Amish that wait down by the phone booth for incoming calls. I've seen Cletracs out in some fields, horses in others. A guy I know gave an Elder, a Bishop a free Poulan chainsaw so that he could sell them to others. I once bidded on a farm through a family estate sale and went up against a young Amish couple with a new baby. Now, when the Amish bankers showed up, they had the most peculiar buggy I've ever seen. It was their version of a stretch limo. It had 4 bench seats, and eight of them old fellas climbed out with tape measures and sliding rulars to figure how much they were going to finance. I have a cousin that was born and raised Catholic, but married an Amish guy and went from all of the ameneties that we take for granted to oil lamps, no electricity, radio, TV, nothing. And since he married her, a non-Amish, or Amish convert, or however they figured it, during the big Sunday dinners they and their children aren't allowed to sit with the others, they sit and eat in another room. During the late '70's when cruising the main drag got big on weekends nights, I used to see the young single Amish ladies get brought into town, they'd go into McDonalds bathrooms and change out of their Amish garb into flashy jeans and tops, then get picked up by guys in their Camaros, Mustangs, GTOs and stuff and cruise the main drag while their brothers that drove them into town would be over on Second St. drag racing the two seaters or family buggies and tearing them horses up. I've seen chevy pickups in the drive parked next to the buggies. Seen vinyl siding on houses with no electricity. I've pretty much seen it all with them Amish. I don't have a problem with them, never have persay, but my brother sure hates them. I'll say this for them, they pretty much keep to themselves, won't turn down a ride, don't use deoderant, and them animals are beasts of burden...no more, no less. Them horses are tools and life for them horses are rough. You don't want to buy a horse from them Amish because its through and ready for the glue pot.
Personally, I aint got no problems with my Amish neighbors, and like someone else said, there are good and there are bad. I haven't run into a bad one yet, not personally. They sit out on the porch on Sundays and wave at me as I drive by, I wave back. And they will give you a days work for a days pay. They came over and put new windows in my mother's house, custom made on the spot. They built one of my barns too. Good quality work.
I dated a Mennonite gal a handful of years older than me for a while, which has its own sects and aren't as strict as them Amish. She wasn't anything like her brother, sister or parents. They were quiet and reserved, and around them so was she. But away from them...woo hoo, and as a young single buck, I sure didn't mind. Her parents wouldn't have approved, but I wasn't going to tell them. She sure was fun and taught me plenty for which I'll always be grateful. Woo Hoo, she was fun!!! Ken, thanks for the memory of that one. Grin.
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