[Ross.]

Originally Posted by Mariah_Carey

Don't use Uber, they treated Laurie Brett appallingly.

She had to wheel herself to the Laurie Brett Awards 2017!

SOC's new job is an uber driver?

[reece(:]

back left!

[Scream]

Usually the front but the last time I did the driver said "sorry if it smells, my son has been ill all day and was sick exactly where you're sitting"

then I became a counselor because he was going through a divorce and his Dad was an alcoholic.

I might choose my seat more wisely now.

[smudgie]

Front next to hubby, my private chauffeur.
Back in the day either, depending on how many of us were out.

[Eddie.]

In the back, when I used to regularly take taxi cabs...now I'm lazy and just do Uber...

[Jack_]

In the back - no preference for left or right, just whichever side the car is facing when it pulls up. I try to sit next to the door I'll be getting out of (to avoid the also awkward edging over the backseats) but don't always remember.

The front is awful.

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by Jack_

In the back - no preference for left or right, just whichever side the car is facing when it pulls up. I try to sit next to the door I'll be getting out of (to avoid the also awkward edging over the backseats) but don't always remember.

The front is awful.

Just get out and walk around the car you lazy bitch.

[Jack_]

Originally Posted by Mariah_Carey

Just get out and walk around the car you lazy bitch.

I do when it's not on a main road I don't want an oncoming car to take their door off!

And I hate that awkward sitting there waiting for a gap in the traffic.

[Jase.]

Always the back on the left.

The perfect taxi driver is somebody who asks where you want to go and then shuts the **** up for the entire journey.

[LaLaLand]

It depends, I never get a taxi on my own (no reason just never need to) BUT...

- If I'm with my mates coming from the pub I have to go in the front

- If it's just me and my Dad coming from the pub I go in the back because there's more room...

I'm 6ft 7 and a bit so I need leg room haha. I know all the taxi drivers here anyway so I'm chatty with them all wherever I perch myself.

[JerseyWins]

Never used taxis even before uber & lyft existed (maybe like once or twice ever)... occasionally do use uber or lyft but it's always with others and I try to get the back though. I'd always take the back if I was alone.

[LemonJam]

Front almost always. Most of the time the driver doesn't want a chat anyway but if they do I'm happy to talk.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Father Moyesy

Used to get in the front seat and put the world to rights with the driver then I realised they normally resented that so now I'd sit in the back and keep myself to myself

The best taxi driver we ever had was this real London guy when we were over there in June, he did wedding singing as well and he put on one of his CDs and we had a big sing song on the journey, he was hilarious, best taxi ride ever

We had an Uber driver in Memphis and she came out with one of the funniest statements I've ever heard. We were talking about pets (don't know why) and my SIL said she used to have hamsters but they kept breeding and having more and more babies and the Uber driver said, "oh, do they have male and female hamsters? I thought they were just made"

[LeatherTrumpet]

dont really use them but i did not so long ago and the TL and mini TL sat in the back and I sat in the front and chatted to the driver as they usually have a good steer on things happening in town. Course up here its scottish people who can speak english..

[Cal.]

Originally Posted by Salah Claus.

I am a taxi regular and have never heard of anyone sitting in the front before unless there are too many of you to all fit in the back.

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I was under the impression taxi drivers didn't like it too.

[Livia]

I never take minicabs or Ubers, only black cabs and only when I'm in London... so you can only sit in the back.

[LeatherTrumpet]

My wedding car was a black cab as it goes

[bitontheslide]

you get a vibe from the driver whether to sit at the front or not

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Isaiah 7:14

My wedding car was a black cab as it goes

I expect your next wedding car will be something different

[Cherie]

If I am on my own, in the back, if I am with a group generally try to get in the back so don't have to make small talk with driver, if going to the airport or something au famille I rush to the back to Mr C has to sit in the front then I can doze with the kids in the back.

[Livia]

Originally Posted by Isaiah 7:14

My wedding car was a black cab as it goes

Mine was too!

[MTVN]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

you get a vibe from the driver whether to sit at the front or not

You can't really get that vibe until you've already opened the door though and by then you're committed

[bitontheslide]

Originally Posted by Father Moyesy

You can't really get that vibe until you've already opened the door though and by then you're committed

Drivers that don't want anyone in the front seat usually have something large sitting on it. That gives off a pretty strong vibe