Comments on: AJ and the Amish

By: mike

mike — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:25:00 +0000

SOoooo, an Amish woman is riding her horse and buggy, when she is pulled over by the cops, and the cop tells her…
“u have a broken reflector on ur buggy, and secondly 1 of your reins is looped around yours horse’s balls, thats cruelty 2 animals, have ur husband fix that rite away”…. lady gets home and tells her husband, “the cop told me 2 things, 1 of the reflectors do not work” her husband says “thats no prob, what is the other thing?” i’m not sure said the wife,something about the emergency brakes!!”

By: Southern Buddhist

Southern Buddhist — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:14:00 +0000

They also love hockey in the winter. One year we saw about a dozen kids, in the subdued-yet-vivid black pants and deep blue shirt combination, with suspenders and hats neatly in place, playing hockey on a frozen pond in a pasture.

By: crocostimpy

crocostimpy — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:59:06 +0000

hahaha…Amish drive-by…hee hee

Sara, the horses hooves go clop clop as they approach, then the gunshot, then the clop clop again as they make their getaway. Eh, not as funny when you explain it.

I lived in York County for a while. Not many Amish there but we shopped in Lancaster frequently. One other note, when our house was being built the roofers were Amish. Those guys worked harder than I’d seen anyone else on the job site work. I dare say if the whole crew would have been Amish our house would have been done months earlier!

By: jsubed

jsubed — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:47:59 +0000

What I want to know is there such a thing as a bad Amish carpenter? I work in a home improvement store and our biggest customer is an Amish contractor. He’s also supposedly the #3 contractor companywide.

By: A.Y.

A.Y. — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:03:36 +0000

DB- I live in Central Ohio, and the Mennonites (or any ‘English’) will drive the Amish for work, shopping, vacation. I know first hand of an Amish framing crew from Belle Center who hire a guy and his van to drive them here to Plain City (about and hour)- and he also works for them.

By: Sara

Sara — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:23:42 +0000

My sister went to Pennsylvania once with a college classmate of hers. She bought my mom An Amish sun hat. She said the Amish customers kept glaring at her. Allen, I don’t get the joke, but I keep laughing at it. I think it’s because of the capitalized bang.

By: Daniel Kim

Daniel Kim — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:38:07 +0000

One little-known fact is that some Amish are testing gene therapy for their children, who often inherit a metabolic disorder.

(Hmmm . . . no links. I guess you’ll have to do a search for “Amish gene therapy” to get the NY Times article.)

By: catherine ann

catherine ann — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:22:55 +0000

I visited Lancaster County a few years back while driving across PA. I loved it as well.

I really wanted to eat a cheeseburger in Paradise while I was there, but we couldn’t find any restaurants in that town. Instead, I resorted to eating a cheeseburger in Intercourse.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:41:30 +0000

I delivered furniture in Amish communities around northern Indiana and southern Michigan for several years and one thing I noticed is that Amish never buy king or queen sized beds, only full and twin sizes. No idea why, but I never saw an exception.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 22:05:30 +0000

@Linda:

My guess is that because of Good Friday, the Amish were in church, and spending the day in celebration of the holiday.

I live in Lancaster County (about 5 minutes outside of Intercourse and 2 minutes from those outlets that someone mentioned in an earlier comment), and A.J., I’ve also been intrigued when I’ve passed an Amish farm on a Sunday afternoon and have seen at least 10 volleyball nets strung all together, with multiple teams playing at once, all in silence.