This was long before the days of cell phones and there was little traffic and those few cars that did pass him, none stopped. Before long an Amish man and his son who had been working their fields came over to see if they could help, my brother thinking - what are these guys going to do? The old man looked under the hood of my brothers car and quickly ascertained that he had a broken hose (the Amish may not own or drive cars themselves but they are very mechanical).
The Amish man told my brother that he had probably a hose that would fit back at his workshop so my brother climbed in the back of their horse drawn wagon. Sure enough the farmers workshop was full of all sorts of things, hoses, belts, engine parts. Turns out he made repairs on farm tractors (for the local non-Amish farmers) as well as having a blacksmith shop. The farmer had a very, very old rotary telephone in the workshop that worked and told my brother that perhaps he might like to call home in case his parents were worried. The mans wife came out and brought my brother some coldish tea and some cookies.
The man found a similar hose, gathered some tools and he, his son and my brother got back in the wagon to my brothers car where the Amish farmer made quick work of the repair, of course telling my brother he should take it to a real mechanic as soon as he could but that it should be good enough to get him home.
When my brother offered to give the Amish man some money for the hose and for his time and trouble, he Amish man refused. He said something in German that my brother supposed was from the Bible. He and his son shook my brothers hand and wished him a safe trip home.
If anyone wants to know who the Amish are, you arent going to find it these fake and trashy so called reality shows (and I know they are fake, the TV producers of Breaking Amish and Amish Mafia ran ads in the local newspapers around here for actors and extras).
If you want to know a little about the Amish, read up on the Nickel Mines School shooting and how the Amish not only forgave the murderer of those sweet little girls, but reached out to his family and embraced them.
Discovery has become the new Tru-TV or History Channel where literally every show can just be declared fiction from the get-go.
You’re a good storyteller, thanks for that vignette.
That last paragraph is hard to retell for a father of 5 like me
They are far better people than I
And they welcomed the killers family to their memorial services
This TV is just bus from some Christ hater with his nose in a pile of blow scribbling away in Topanga canyon
Same crap since the 70s