Originally Posted by
duane041
Y'all are making some assumptions when you say "Mennonites". When you see the bonnets, the bicycles and the farms, you're talking about conservative Mennonites. I'm married to a Mennonite, and believe me, she ain't like those ladies on the bicycles.
Conservative Mennonites are much more like Amish than other Mennonites are.
Well living all around them you see many things. On the Amish side about anything goes before they are married as the older generation hopes that the younger generation will still stay Amish. So yes there are cars hidden places and then when they settle down and get married the cars are sold. The ones that have a business after they get married pay to have a driver drive them around. On the Mennonite side their tractors have steel wheels but their wagons and other equipment have tires go figure. It does tend to mess up the tar and chip roads in the summer time. The funniest thing that has happened to me over the years is I ride late at night at times since I do ultra rides and struggle riding at night. One time I made it home around midnight and this guy pulls up beside me in a Ford Bronco and asks me if I have seen a horse. Didn't know what was going on at the time but figured out later that he was out partying somewhere and his horse got away and he didn't know what to say when he went home without his horse.
Zman