The guy who talked about driving them around is right, I had friend who did that. He drove a carpentry crew to work. After awhile they gave him a list of things they wanted him to fix on his old van or they’d fire him which is what happened. He thought the real reason was because he kept bugging them to teach him carpentry. They are renowned carpenters.
I worked in a slaughterhouse with them. Most all the kill floor was Amish, just a few of them worked in the cooler with me and the rest of the “Yankees”. They’d use power equipment on the job but not in their home. One guys dad had a wood shop, he had a telephone in the shop and I imagine power tools but not in the home. I’ve ridden in a buggy with one and even let one of the young ones drive my car. I was taking him home from work. He saw his dad out in the field and said Oh shit and slammed the car into park (fortunately in a gravel road) and rolled out of the car into the ditch and told me to keep going. Apparently they aren’t usually full blown Amish till they marry. Most of the Amish drink beer and they sort of look the other way when the kids smoke and raise hell. I’m not sure if they vote but I suspect they do. They don’t like paying taxes so that might get them to vote but generally don’t participate in modern life. They didn’t believe man had been to the moon so they are capable of denying reality. But I still don’t think they’d approve of trump with multiple wife’s and use of prostitutes.
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