Curious what the community thinks of this. When I have a friend who's less than 5 minutes away, sometimes I will go out and look for (street) parking spots, and if I find one, I'll just stand in it until they get there. In my opinion this is totally okay to do, given that they'll be there in a few minutes.

But every now and then someone fights me about it. They'll nearly run me over trying to park in it, and I'll say I'm holding it. They'll say you can't do that. Idk man, look I get it if it was like 15+ minutes that's no good, but if a friend is just a few minutes away I think that's totally fine.

I mean we're talking about a public street here. Tell me if you think I'm wrong