To think DH should sit in the front?

I always sit in the front in taxis , I get really travel sick.

No, you just have a different world and experience. Good for you, glad you’re happy. I explicitly said this is just what we do!

If he's happy sitting in the back, and you're the one who doesn't want to be squashed.. then you sit in the front. I don't know why you think he should!

I'm surprised that some enterprising person hasn't started producing signs for taxi drivers to hang in clear view of the front passenger seat that say "Do not ask the driver if s/he has been busy, when s/he started his/her shift or when s/he is working until, throughout your entire journey".

I think they'd go down a storm - and, in the case of any blatant infringements, the driver could just wag their finger and say sternly "Don't make me tap the sign!!"

Yes they do! I never ever sit in the back.

I would just sit in the front.

I got an uber a few weeks back and just got in the front passenger seat out of habit.

I apologised when I realised and he said it was fine. We had a nice journey and passed the time by chatting. I don't know if we were talking about 'man things' though.

You both seem to have fixed ideas about the roles and behaviours of men and women though, OP. I'd just do what you feel is for the best if I were you. Just say to him, "It's too cramped in the back. I'll get in the front." Problem solved.

Not in my family they don't.

😂

But iirr that was an advert about wearing seatbelts.
Seatbelts would have prevented that - it's what they are for!

And how would it even work if you're the driver and have adult passengers?

Yes, indeed - it was definitely about the seat belts. Even a small person, if unrestrained in the back, would carry a significant, destructive force if they were hurled forwards in the event of an impact.

Unless your seat belts are faulty (and thus would fail an MoT), a 35-stone passenger could be in the back row of a 7-seater and still not personally put any of the much smaller people in front of them in any danger in a crash.

OP have you considered that maybe he just likes being with you both?

I think in most other areas of life, he's very gentlemanly and thinks of me and dd, puts our comfort first.

He walks on the road side of the pavement, opens doors, carries heavy bags etc etc.

Yes, but who has to wash his clothes after all of the peasants have jettisoned their slops and sirreverences out of the upstairs windows and he's been right in the firing line?!

Allen keys, tarpaulins and camping trailers. And Yorkies marinated in diesel, I presume.

Never been in a taxi where you couldn’t sit in the front seat. Ever.

Talk about man things?! How very bizarre!

A very VERY strange image has just popped into my head!!

I don't know where you live but this certainly isn't the case where I am. Oh and DH is a taxi driver!

Have you ever asked him why he doesn’t sit in the front?

I still don’t understand why when the taxi pulls up, you don’t say “are you getting in the front, or shall I?”

Well, if you don’t like being squashed in the back, you can go and sit in the front each time. Unless it’s one of those very rare special Ubers where the seatbelts in the front seat can only be operated by a penis.

What a stupid comment.

I always sit in the front because I can't get in the back. Last time I checked, I was not a man

That’s not what ironic means 😂

If I was the teenager daughter I’d be mortified my mum was so sexist and sit in the front myself!!

Maybe PP is thinking of London black cabs - Hackney Carriages - which, on the very rare occasions that I've had cause to use them, seem to be designed to avoid any social/human contact between the driver and passengers at all, with a thick post-office-style window and microphone/speaker system between you both. I'm not certain if there even is a front passenger seat there at all.

To be fair, I suppose it's probably safer if you're working in a huge, potentially dangerous city. And they're normally large cars, with at least five passenger seats in the back (as long as two people don't mind pretending that they're at the cinema but watching the wall at the back instead of the screen). Or maybe they're just designed that way at the demand of the drivers, to prevent them from going postal on the 236th passenger of the day asking them if they've been busy!

With taxis/Ubers that are normal cars - i.e. the exact same car that you might have as a family (except with no easy-to-remember phone number painted on the side) - there's absolutely no reason to avoid using the most comfortable passenger seat at all - even if you're the only passenger.

Hahaha, my husband used to do the same - every time!! Then we went out for a special anniversary meal, all our clothes fully pressed / steamed, and he squashed us all and ruined 3 outfits (and moods). These days I bark a quick ‘sit at the front!’ and he executes.

The advert was about wearing a seat belt, not having people who are heavier than you sit behind you. And he was hardly a whale of a teenage boy… Very odd that’s your takeaway from the advert.

Mmmm. Since, this is just about OPs Sunday morning musings and not a UN conference about the politics of hired transport, I would tend to be in agreement!

Whenever we have been in a taxi, abroad or in our northern UK town, me and DS would get in the back and DH would get in the front, doing the whole 'you been busy' line of communication with the driver!

This has never been an agreement but just a natural 'car filling' arrangement!