I drove into a shop car park on Sunday to find approximately 10 inches of snow - and around 20 vehicles parked erratically.
Three drivers were attempting to manouvre, and holding me up - the first had his reversing light lit, was spinning his wheels madly while I waited patiently at a safe distance back for him to exit the end space he was in - he could have gone forward out OR reverse.
When I finally drove around him while he gave it a rest, I came up behind a PT Cruiser trying to drive along the line of parked cars. Full left lock, wheels spinning at high speed, he was S L O W L Y edging forwards - but seemed unaware of his lock until the front end drifted in towards the parked cars - at which point he reversed back slightly and repeated the manouvre all over again!
Eventually he made it to to a space when he let the revs drop, and I then simply drove past in second gear using the clutch to stop from stalling, and parked in the next available space. Meanwhile a Renault Scenic behind us was rocking backwards and forwards half in and half out of a space... I thought he was trying to get out at first.
When I came out of the shop 15 minutes later, he had a shovel and was digging the snow away from
behind the car.
I was able to reverse back, put lock on and spin the front of my car through 90 degrees within it's length plus a few inches, and then simply drive cautiously out of the car park (his car was halfway across the roadway and my space)!
I don't think I would have trusted any of them out on the road in traffic - and Southport was full of others just like them over the weekend!