Can you sneak into the garage and disconnect some wiring in the motor of your car so it won't start? Can you have someone call you away on an "emergency?" Can you create a series of mishaps or, at least, delaying tactics -- spill tomato juice all over the kitchen floor, take a fall in the driveway so you will have to change clothes, "lose" the car keys, spill something on the carpet that will take a long time to wipe up, have a neighbor come over and ask for help with a project he/she can't complete alone, hide the hair dryer, drag a huge tree limb into the driveway that will have to be sawn into pieces before it can be removed, drop and break a few dishes, develop nausea so you need to be out in the fresh air.....
I'd love to be there to see all this unfold.
Regards,
SandraC