I parked somewhere and a large van parked 5 inch next to the driver side door. I could not open the door, when I got back to my car.

The obvious solution was to get into my car, via the the passenger side door and then climb over the centre console. I had my heavy coat on and it all seemed too much for me and I did n't want to accidently put shoe marks all over the dashboard.

I had this neat idea of releasing the handbrake and let the car roll down in reverse.

It worked and I congratulated myself for being a genius :-)

However, I some cars do not have a traditional handbrake, what would have happened if I had done that in those type of cars?