So I park at the friends' for whom I was catsitting, curbing my wheels properly as it's a steep hill, and there is a crunch and then my steering wheel locked. Which it often does for security- but it usually has wobble, and no crunch. So I play with the cat and when I come out, no movement, key won't turn, wheel won't turn- I try various things, then walk home. Ask for rides to everything that weekend, everybody has a trick... Press the brake, turn this way or that, nothing works. After 3 days my French friend offers to help...
And he *looks* at the car and the wheel turns, and all is fine.
I hate the French sometimes.
What was the trick?