Was living in a first floor flat with my Mrs. Our building was on the corner of a T junction with our quiet residential street facing onto Station Road, which was a relatively busy road in the Town we were living in. The Mrs and I had just had a big old row, can't remember what it was about, almost certainly something inane, she had gone out and I was heading out too.
I go downstairs and get into my car which is parked across the street from my flat, facing onto the main road. Just as I get ready to pull off I look up to the flat and notice that one of the windows is wide open. This is the kind of thing, that will lead to another massive row with the Mrs if I leave it open when we are both out, so being the dutiful boyfriend and desperately wanting to avoid another pointless shouting match, I get out of the car, go upstairs, close the window, come back downstairs, and just as I am closing the front door, I look across the road to see my car creeping forward. I hadn't put the handbrake back on and there was a very slight hill down toward the main road. I sprint across the street, scrambling to get my car keys outta my pocket but its too late, the car is moving too fast for me to get the keys into the lock (no central locking bibber gizmo on my old VW Polo). Worried that I am going to cause a massive crash i run out into the middle of the main road, just waving my arms like a goon to try and stop the traffic, i don't actually remember if there was much traffic but thankfully the Polo rolls quickly and safely across the road and luckily straight up the drive of another house. Phew.
But, when I say up, I mean up, and what goes up must come down, as it reaches the top of the drive, it starts going backwards again before I can get in and stop it, back down towards the main road, again. Still desperate to avoid a crash, I jump back into the road, repeat my lunatic waving dance routine to slow down the traffic and just have to stand in the middle of the road as I watch my driverless car reverse across the road and back up into my street, at which point, I just have to say fuck it and rather than try in vain again to unlock it and get in, I just wait for it stop, jump in front of the bonnet and hold it in place - a solution of sorts, although I did wonder how long i could hold it there for. Luckily its only a minute or so before a passing pedestrian asks if I need help. I ask him to hold the car for me while i finally manage to put the handbrake on and manage to catch my breath.
I was so flustered that I just drove off, I can't even remember saying thankyou to the good Samaritan who helped me, but the worst part after all that, as i drove off, i realised i had no idea if i had locked the front door of the flat, so I had to do a lap of the towns one way system to come back and check that I had in fact already locked the front door.