day TEN | Year TEN | 2019

Yep – this happened!

It’s been a saga, but Willow finally has that learners licence in her hot little hands! …

… she actually qualified for it, through an in-school program, in March, but she wasn’t old enough to collect it then… so she waited till the day came that she WAS old enough – that was about five months ago! – but she had no paperwork (that Access Canberra would accept) that could prove her home address, and having her father standing there to verify it didn’t work!… so, she applied for a tax file number, and opened a new bank account… a wait for all that paperwork to arrive and back to Access Canberra they went… ahhh nope… still no go – because she didn’t have three months worth of transactions in her new bank account, and Russ’ licence was NSW not ACT, they STILL wouldn’t hand over her learners…

I would like to digress slightly here, to point out that she could have bought a gun from Walmart in the USA… but Access Canberra wouldn’t give her a LEARNERS licence!

… back to the story… by now, I (with my ACT licence) am back at work so unable to take her in… so, I filled out a stat dec stating she really did live here, and gave a scanned copy of my licence to Willow & Russ… and back they went… finally, TEN MONTHS after qualifying for it – Willow has her Learners Licence!

Now, I would warn you to get off the road – but I already have THREE out there driving around, so you should have handed your licence in years ago!!