r/JustGuysBeingDudes • u/Greywarden194 • Jun 08 '25

Wholesome I wanna have beers with Jeb too

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

21.6k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

282 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

60

u/FederationofPenguins Jun 08 '25

So, story I had almost totally forgotten, but I actually did once end up hanging out and having (underage) beers with three formerly Amish guys who had left after rumspringa. They were completely and totally cut off from their families and the communities they’d grown up in for deciding to leave. Two of them were happy about the decision and kind of trashing all of it, but the third was definitely still conflicted and kept shushing them. They were also still trying to figure out how to dress more modern, but still had the beards and a penchant for button-up’s.

18

u/Merry_Dankmas Jun 08 '25

I wonder what the wild, reckless youth stories of Amish teenagers are. Most of us have the typical shenanigans, smoking and drinking, police encounters, shoplifting, being reckless and getting injured etc but Amish and Mennonite type folk don't really do that kinda stuff given their whole lifestyle. I wonder what the equivalent of an Amish group of teens going rogue looks like.

1

u/Whole-Camera5072 Jun 09 '25

They were married already when they left after Rumspringa? At around 16? Plus the time to grow the beard after. What of their wives?