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Monday, June 29, 2009

Mennonite Hot Rods

We spent the weekend in Mennonite country not far from Toronto. As we were enjoying a lovely day tootling around shopping for antiques and rocking chairs (well, I was shopping, Hubby was enduring), a young Mennonite man with his shirt sleeves rolled up to his elbows drove by in his horse-draw cart.

Sporting car bucket seats.

"Huh," says I. "I suppose they're comfortable."

It was only when a second horse-drawn cart with car bucket seats holding two more young Mennonite guys drove by that it occured to me that I might be witnessing the Mennonite equivalents of hot rods.

Then another thing occurred to me.

You can keep your brooding, pale, angst-ridden vampire guys. I'd rather have sun-bronzed, good-looking, forearm-bearing young farmers.

2 comments:

  1. LOL. I've been stuck behind plenty of buggies in that area, but never noticed one with bucket seats. Brilliant.

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  2. Yes, that is the trouble with vampires -- they tend to be rather unhealthy looking...

    I wonder if bucket seats are more comfortable on the behind...

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