After landing in Perth we grabbed our bags and found our rent-a-car company. A funny little story, and interesting tip to Americans traveling in Australia among other places...is that the way their dates are written can be used to your advantage. As Americans would list October 3rd, 1984 as 10/3/84, Australians would list it as 3/10/84. Now you might wonder the significance of this. My fellow travel mates and I were all under the age of 25, meaning we would have to pay an extra $250 fee to rent a car. As we were a mere couple months from turning 25, the fee was something we were looking to avoid. Luckily, the rent-a-car lady, either stupid or careless, interoperated my friend's drivers license (born 10/3/84, October 3rd not March 10th) to be that of a 25
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