of sitting in a funny smelling room with loud children who enjoyed stepping on my toes as they ran past me

and forgetting to bring a diversion

and having the actual process take about two minutes



just to be handed a small rectangular piece of paper and hear the words "your license will be in the mail in two to five weeks"

and have my mother let me, after much fretting, drive two miles in my neighborhood all by my lonesome




oh, it was worth it