Right. Around here the Mennonites wear normal (but very concretive) street clothes. The women are always in dresses, usually with a small, pastel, flower print. The Amish ware blacks and browns, drive buggies and farm or have construction businesses.

The Mennonites have cars and are often the store owners. The average Mennonite hardware store caters to the farming community, including the Amish. The store is more like a general store with tools, clothes, housewares, and kids’ toys, all with a verry country, family flavor. So you'll see family board games, sleds and toy tractors instead of Barbie dolls and monster action figures.

Neither Amish nor Mennonites talk “funny” but Amish have a Pennsylvania Dutch accent. To an outsider they look like nuns but they are not devoutly religious in their actions. They go hunting and, when you get to know them well, many have a very funny sense of barnyard humor.