Runaway cars

Hmmm.  How does a car run away and why?  Does said car, some dark night when there is no one to see it, slip into reverse, back itself out of the driveway and then shift into drive and slip away aka Herbie?  Did the much larger cars tease it so that it felt hurt and needed to escape?  Did the adult cars refuse to get it some swankie add-on freature and it's feeling hard done by?  Did it suffer from some kind of trama and no one offered to help it?  A near miss or an accident could do that, and can send a car into total withdrawl.  How old is the car when it runs away and are car years like dog or cat years?  You know, one year for a car is the equivalent of 5 or 6 years of a human.  If so that would make a little sense.  After all, children sometimes threaten to run away when they feel hurt.  Teens will definitely run away if they don't feel that the family cares (real or not).  So why will the car run away?  Is it not being well looked after and believes it will be cared for better someplace else?  Does it have an addiction problem (you know - it got the wrong fuel - high octane verses regular) and now can't live without it?  Are it's tires not being rotated often enough, or is it in need of new ones and no one is dealing with the issue?  Is it an oil issue and why did the owners not deal with it sooner?  The big question is, how will an owner of such a car know how it is feeling and get the appropriate intervention in a timely manner and did the car send out any signals that it wasn't happy only to be ignored?  I don't own a car so these issues are not part of my life, but I do know many people who own cars.  Maybe we should all pay much more attention to them in order to prevent our cars from running away.  Or, we could not anthropomorphize an inanimate object and get on with our lives.  I know I will.  Until next time.