dazwan wrote:When I was
When I was younger the neighbour bought his drivers licence from the post office for a fiver in the days before they brought in the test, he’d never sat a driving test in his life, this was also in the 80’s so I doubt there are many of those out there still.
My late grandfather had only ever ridden a motorcycle when he was called up on active service in 1939… after basic combat training he was told “you’ll be driving that lorry” he protested that he’d not got a licence & had never even driven a car… a licence was duly knocked out by the RSM’s sidekick and that’s the one he had until he died (well renewed every 3 years like you used to have to before 1976)