Driving licenses free with breakfast cereals?

Quite a sensational headline don’t you think? I’ve not found this anywhere else on the internet today and so I can only assume that I’m breaking this story first! Well this is new territory for me.

I believe that the title says it all. It seems that a well known breakfast cereal manufacturer here in the UK have started to give away driving licenses to anyone who is old enough, if they collect tokens from certain specially marked packs. You know the format, “send 3 tokens plus £4.95 and a Stamped Addressed Envelope to…”. I really never thought this day would come. I mean where does this leave the value of the good old driving test?

So how have I discovered this you might ask? Well it’s simple. At the point on my journey to work this morning where I came face to face with some stupid cow coming the wrong way round a roundabout while sending a text message, I figured it must be the only plausible explanation. I mean surely such incompetence would have been caught had this dozy mare had to actually sit a driving test? Fortunately (and unusually for a Monday morning) I was alert enough to be able to swerve, beep the horn and shout obscenities at her with amazing reactions! Now hopefully she’ll appreciate the error of her ways and leave the driving to those of us that have actually taken a test…