Posted by ScottyHOMEy on June 17, 2008 at 18:00:27 from (71.241.211.194):
In Reply to: amish posted by ken in texas on June 17, 2008 at 14:14:12:
The different orders have different rules, and there will still be variations in the local communities.
I remember drivin' out around Middlefield, OH, one day, and I see an Amish girl way up ahead, swingin' away mightily in the ditch. I figured she was swingin' a scythe from the way she was movin'. Get up closer and she's swingin' a weed whacker.
Same neighborhood, came across a fella with a nice team puliin a baler powered with what looked like a Honda engine. Not sure how he had that rigged up.
Another time some years back, goin' up I81, I stopped at a rest area just inside PA. Was comin out of the buildin' and here comes this old Amish fella. How'd he get here, I wondered. Then I see a Ford Crown Vic, black with all the chrome painted over and a young Amish fella under the wheel. I learned later that some communities were losin' so many young folks that they opened up a window, for the boys, at least, that would allow them certain liberties (cars, for example, but no chrome!) for a set number of years (like from age 17 to 21, someting like that) at the end of which they had to make a choice to stay or leave.
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