It was his car parked at his house. Silly man, he probably he could take as long as he pleased. But just for my edification, how much time should he have been allowed to get a cigarette?
I don’t know which part of the story is wrong, but I’m certain that something in the story isn’t quite right. For example: the neighbor says she heard the car cranking, what’s up with that.
I’m going to hang my hat on either she didn’t hear the car cranking, or the guy said he was just going out to get a cigarette and for some reason started cranking the car.