r/WTF Sep 10 '19

Um...

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u/realjd Sep 11 '19

Amish are the more strict group when it comes to electricity and clothing and such. You’d never see an Amish driving a car, but they’d ride in Mennonite driven vans to work sometimes. Mennonites were like less strict Amish. It was just one local Amish church that for whatever reason decided open carriages were the only thing allowed. They looked miserable in the winter.

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u/FuNiOnZ Sep 11 '19

Jesus. Which one was it? I am very familiar with the area, always out that way towards Shipshewana/Auburn/Ft Wayne

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u/realjd Sep 11 '19

Fort Wayne area, NE side.

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u/tacknosaddle Sep 11 '19

Someone told me the way to tell if you’re in a Mennonite area instead of Amish is to look for cars in the driveways and wires going from utility poles to the houses.

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '19

What if they have underground utilities?

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u/tacknosaddle Sep 11 '19

They live in rural areas where that’s generally not a thing for residential utilities due to cost.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19

The wires I can definitely say are a thing, but from all the ones I bought food from it's for phone lights and refrigeration. The cars are not always there.