To think DH should sit in the front?

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Now and again we get an Uber with DD for quite journey of about 25/30 mins. Every time DH squeezes in the back with me and DD. I should say we are both a bit bigger and DH is tall. Dd id a teenager. He opens the door for us and we get in and then he makes us budge up and we all sit squashed in whilst the front passenger seat is empty.

Is this weird? He thinks you don't sit in the front seat, I think he should.

I would sit in the front but I generally think he should and secondly he gestures for me to get in first and then gets in after. It would be silly for me to get back out and walk around to the front seat.

What do you think?

My story, I get to decide. You're being very aggressive about a very minor Sunday morning ponder.

You're being odd.

Just get in the front yourself

I would sit in the front but I generally think he should why? That's weird. Next time he wants you to get in say no that's OK ill sit in the front

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Says the person in an arse with her DH over this!

I voted that the OP is being unreasonable because of this comment.
I think someone could sit in the front but why should it be the husband?

“the nuances”…. love it! 😆

Oh no, I’m with your DH you sit in the back of a taxi. You’re invading their private space sitting in the front.

We don't squabble, we are you just inventing stuff?

This one doesn't it seems.

I think we have the same DH.😄 Last time we got a taxi the driver said to DH that he had never had a passenger sit in the front before.

Next time he opens the door for you, just sit in the end sit and do your belt up, instead of shuffling along to the middle.

Why don't you just take charge. Open the back door for your daughter and husband and then just get into the front seat. He's last to get in because you just accept the routine as if you have no power to change it.

You only think it would seem passive aggressive because the current arrangement irritates you. Stop blaming your husband and do things differently.

I'm not in an arse with him, there's no argument! You're being very odd if you think every conversation between adults is a argument. It's literally a different point of view. Funny even!

This! 😂

If you think he should sit in the front ask him to. Before the taxi even turns up.

If he won't then you tell him you are going to sit in the front. Before the taxi turns up.

If this starts an argument ask him what he would do if you were a family of four. And then sit in the front.

Because royalty goes in the back 😁

Do you not talk to your husband? Just say "its silly us all being squashed next time one of us should sit in the front"

Threads like this baffle me. Why don't you, you know, communicate?!
'DH it's way too squished with all three of us in the back, I'm going to sit in the front/you or DD can sit in the front'. Job done.

so you just thought you’d start a thread about rare seating car seating arrangements between your Dh and yourself rather than just… you know, talk to your husband?

exactly!

I’d feel awkward sitting in the front of a taxi, I’d rather squash with 3 people in the back. And because I wouldn’t do it, I wouldn’t expect anyone else to either.

To be fair to the OP, this thread is no more trivial than dozens of others on MN involving a lack of communication

Next time just ask "who's sitting in the front today" before it arrives.

I think you're being a bit harsh on the OP. She wants to sit in spacious comfort in the back with her DD so her DH should sit in the front and talk about football/sit in awkward silence with the driver. She doesn't want to sit next to a strange bloke for 25 minutes while her DH could do that instead. I hear you, OP.

‘Do you want to sit in the front, Fred, or shall I? It’s a bit of a squeeze all three of us in the back’

You’re welcome!

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