If you get in a taxi on your own - where do you sit?

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I got an Uber yesterday on my own. I sat in the back and had a lovely peaceful 10 minutes

One of the people I was meeting commented that it was weird and I should have sat in the front. Just wondering what the norm is?

I used to use a local taxi firm back in my clubbing days and knew the drivers so used to sit in the front and have a chat. I don't know any Uber drivers though and didn't want to make pointless small talk.

Same here although with my dodgy knees, I find getting in the back seat is difficult but I feel more relaxed in the back if on my own. Helpful drivers pull the front seat forward to help me but others leave me to struggle!

In the back behind the driver.

Always in the back. Unless there's 3 of us, then I'm happy to go in the front. But just me, or me and one other, I'd sit in the back.

I always sit in the back. Not sure why, habit probably.

Always in the back. If the four of us get an Uber somewhere DH goes in the front.

I always ask where they would prefer me to sit as I'm never sure either. They always say in the front.

In the back. I used to sit in the front until I was assaulted by a taxi driver.

Yeah… That’s not a good reason for sitting in the front, though.

Front as you can child lock the back seats

In the back.

Making small talk with chatty taxi drivers is one if my all time pet hates.

In the back for the love of God.

The front so I can chat to the driver
usually have a laugh with cabbies

since covid though I ask them front or back and sometimes they say back

This.

As a long-term taxi customer, I sit in the back. I am a respectable woman.

In the back behind the front passenger seat. I don't want to make small talk with anyone.My DP also female always sits in the front she loves to chat to anyone.

I ask permission to sit in the front due to my disability (leg room and head room) ; they've never said no! The driver usually has to tidy up the space as that's their "office" IYSWIM.

The back always.

I don’t know anyone that wouldn’t unless the car was full. I get lots of taxis in the country and cities, I am sure the driver likes his privacy too, and also air space these days.

Why would you sit where they want not where you want?

Where I live it’s always been the norm to go in front and cabbies are super friendly
ove had some of the best laughs of my life on a cab ride but I’m a really sociable person

When I was younger ( at uni, early 20s) I used to sit in the front. I guess I was more social back then.
Always sit in the back now.

In the back, except for long journeys in minicabs, when I ask the driver and usually end up in the front

Always in the back - I'd feel like I was encroaching on the drivers space if I sat in the front, seems a bit presumptuous. It would be so awkward if they weren't the chatty sort too.

I always sit in the back. It would feel weird going on the front.

In the back, behind the drivers seat. That way it's difficult to get a weapon aimed at me. And yes, I know that's an unlikely scenario but it makes me feel safer.

In the back, behind the passenger seat so if I needed to get out quickly I'm on the pavement side.

Had a couple of friends when younger/students who were groped by drivers when they sat in the front. They seems to think them being friendly/chatty meant they could attempt to put their hands up their skirts

I also don't always want to chat, sometimes I have stuff to do on my phone emails etc or I'm mentally prepping for a meeting or I'm just tired and not in the mood. Easier to sit quietly in the back.