Amish Mafia???

   Just when you think that the different cable channels have shown you every aspect of Amish life you can think of they manage to come up with another that I thought was just a joke.  

     Heck, it was and is a joke that I like to tell...

     "How can you tell the Amish Mafia is after you?"

     "You wake up one morning with a barn in your yard and a very angry quilt on the bed next to you!"

     It seems, however, that the Discovery Channel has found an "Amish Mafia" in Lancaster, PA and have decided to put it through the 'reality show' grist mill for the entertainment and titillation of the American viewing public.

    This Mafia is presumed to be the "Amish Police" and their job is to keep the Amish in line and walking the straight and narrow... the only problem is... the Amish have never heard of them and neither has anyone who has ever grown up near the Amish.

     It only makes, sense, though... after all, we hear all the time about the high speed buggy chases that happen with guns blazing after a corn husking gone bad.  (Insert sarcasm and stir  then bake at 350 for twenty minutes, sheesh people... no, this does not happen!)

     If there WAS an Amish Mafia keeping them all in line then there would be no Rumspringa (running around years when the Amish youth experience the "English" modern world before joining the Church and giving up such things) and those that left the Amish would go into hiding and not on cable reality shows talking about how they left.

    They would go into hiding... though... since the Amish do not have television sets in their homes or the internet I guess the case could be made that they were safe on TV because they would never be seen.  It is not like any neighbors that are not Amish would *ever* tell their Amish neighbors about what they saw on TV. (Yes, more sarcasm... )

     On an unrelated note... I awoke this morning to find this lovely gift on my bed next to me!

     It has such lovely tiny hand stitching... and just look at that happy smile!

     I guess we will just have to wait until December to see what the Discovery Channel has come up with that they can call an "Amish Mafia", but as for this dedicated Blogger... I am just not buying it!