My DD is 4 and I don’t drive (recently started lessons). I don’t get taxis very often, but whenever I do I put DD in her carseat which seems totally normal to me as I wouldn’t want to put her at risk if we ended up in a crash.
People are really weird about it though, like a surprising amount of people and it’s always the exact same conversation, like they’re reading a script! A few of my neighbours, at least 4 different taxi drivers, a few parents at playgroups, my in laws, random strangers that see me waiting for a taxi home. They all tell me that I don’t need a carseat for taxis, I politely reply that it’s just to keep her safe, they respond with ‘just sit them on your knee, it’s just as safe as a car seat!’ I smile politely and say something like ‘Oh can you? I didn’t know that, thank you. I’ll still take it to be on the safe side though’ then they proceed to act really offended and tell me about how they never use car seats for their kids and they’ve never had a problem, being really pushy about it. I never know what to say so I just give a polite little laugh or smile and pretend to be busy with DD or on my phone.
I didn’t think much of it the first few times but it’s happened so often that I’m second guessing myself. Is it really that unusual to use one in taxis?