I have a vestigal driver's licence from growing up in the suburbs (which I never really used, opting to bike instead, but my parents were pretty insistent that I get one, so...) and I found your post interesting (actually a friend forwarded it to me) because I got a firearms license specifically to highlight the absurdity of having a driver's license (and people's assumptions about everyone having a driver's license -- ended up enjoying the sport of target shooting too). When I was still easily mistaken for someone underage, I'd often have conversations that followed along the lines of:

"May I see some ID please?"

"Here you go." (handing over firearms license)

"Umm, what's this?"

"It's a firearms license; government-issued photo ID."

"Do you have any more normal ID?"

"Like what?"

"Well a driver's license?"

"Are you crazy? Cars kill people"

(Sometimes the person carding me was really on the ball and would respond "Cars don't kill people, people kill people")

Now that is one hilarious conversation... repeated over and over: hope it didn't get too annoying. I toyed with the idea of getting a firearms license, too, but I was never genuinely interested in it enough to actually do it.