From my own abilities, I should be able to jump to the defence of women drivers. All of the women in my family are brilliant drivers (my sister was a paramedic and drove ambulances and fast response cars.. of which you only have one chance to pass the test or your out). No woman in my family that i know of has had to have more than 14 lessons before passing (maybe it's genetic? or just the fact that we're all very hands-on practical girls). One guy i went on a date with told me he'd never met a woman who could drive before. And my driving instructor knew instantly on my first lesson that i was a cyclist because of my observation skills.
All the girls in our family can reverse park, reverse round corners, etc etc, in one go, and we can all get in tight gaps, no matter the size of the car.
But unfortunately... i can't defend women. i have only 2 friends who i feel safe with, then about 40% of the rest i can get in a car with and suffer their driving, and then after that... i make any excuse to drive myself. One girl won't say how many times she failed her manual test before she took it in an automatic and passed. How she passed the automatic i'll never know, the examiner must have just been sick of the sight of her. She drives the equivalent of a go-kart, all she has to do is steer and still she causes mayhem.
I have colleagues at work who have driven into the building (!!!) when parking, and into the pillars in the basement that hold the building up(!!!). The other day my dad had to park a car for a woman in a car park, just like the OP, after she was holding the traffic up. I was wetting myself when he told me the story.
One friend in particular... well, i'm surprised she hasn't killed anyone.
All the girls in our family can reverse park, reverse round corners, etc etc, in one go, and we can all get in tight gaps, no matter the size of the car.
But unfortunately... i can't defend women. i have only 2 friends who i feel safe with, then about 40% of the rest i can get in a car with and suffer their driving, and then after that... i make any excuse to drive myself. One girl won't say how many times she failed her manual test before she took it in an automatic and passed. How she passed the automatic i'll never know, the examiner must have just been sick of the sight of her. She drives the equivalent of a go-kart, all she has to do is steer and still she causes mayhem.
I have colleagues at work who have driven into the building (!!!) when parking, and into the pillars in the basement that hold the building up(!!!). The other day my dad had to park a car for a woman in a car park, just like the OP, after she was holding the traffic up. I was wetting myself when he told me the story.
One friend in particular... well, i'm surprised she hasn't killed anyone.
The trouble was that they were so flaky from a reliability point of view but the exhaust note....... 
