Communal Living in the 21'st Century

I thought the Home Hardware consortium was owned by Mormons, but whoaaa! Was I wrong!

I went to the local Home Hardware here in town, a family run business where all the employees go the the same church and all the men volunteer for the volunteer fire department, to ask about Mormons. I was interested, or I thought I was, in joining the Mormon commune in Bountiful, B.C.

It turns out, the staff at Home, and at Home's head office are Baptists.

"Baptist, anabaptist, what the Hell's the difference?", I asked the man I buy my nails and screws from.

"Well," he says, "An anabaptist is really a Mennonite, but we are the true Baptists. There's a big difference."

"No shit?", I say. "For Chrissake, I didn't know that."

I do know there's Mennonite community near Kitchener, Ontario, which used to named "Berlin", but we're going into strange historial territory there.

On my way home from the hardware store, the images of rosy cheeked Mormon girls stuffing goose down into pillows and duvets was soon replaced by something more sinister.

I'm beginning to wonder if this whole idea is too far fetched for the likes of me, but I will keep looking.