The Day Getting A Drivers License Was Easy.

How Mom Got Her License To Drive 

My mother and father got married because WWII was starting and Dad had enlisted. Mom was only 18 and would have waited to get married but Dad was going to be leaving and they didn't want to wait, what with the war going on and all.
Mom hadn't yet gotten her license (and sure didn't know how to drive), and in the short time Dad was home, he tried to teach her. No luck. She was awful on the road. He went off to war and told her to try and get her license, as she'd be needing it with him not being around.
She practiced on the roads, not getting any better though she tried. One day a friend saw her around town and told her to go down to the Town Hall as they were "giving out licenses, no tests"!
Mom wasn't sure whether to believe it or not, but figured she had nothing to lose, so off she went. She drove herself to the Town Hall in Enfield, CT, managing to keep the car on the road. She went in and her friend was right, as in honor of all the local men who'd enlisted, there were a whole lot of women left at home who had no licenses and she got one on the spot. No test, nothing. She proudly walked out with a real honest-to-goodness drivers license.
Till the day she died, she swore up and down, she'd never have passed that test. And she never drove on the highway or over 35 miles an hour!

mn - 2007