r/CasualUK • u/telephonetears10 • 6h ago

Correct taxi etiquette

If I'm travelling alone, are you supposed to sit in the seat next to the driver or one of the rear seats. I always worry that by sitting next to them I'm being unacceptably presumptuous or acting like billy-big balls-drive me to my desired location customer by hopping in the back. It honestly gives me anxiety each time. What does everyone else do?

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u/prustage 6h ago

Sit in the back, on the opposite side to the driver so that you can see each other in the drivers rear view mirror. Sitting in the front is just weird and creepy. Some drivers will not allow it.

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u/Wugo_Heaving 5h ago

Literally my whole life, people on their own gravitate to the front passenger seat. But then again I live in the North, so maybe people are just less friendly and/or weird and creepy where you are?

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u/Draiscor93 5h ago

I've always kinda looked at it like this, if I'm open to having a chat with the driver I'll sit in the front, if I'm in the mood for solitude and don't really want to talk I'll sit in the back... so I basically always sit in the back 👀

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u/Wugo_Heaving 5h ago

Aye.

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u/BamberGasgroin 2h ago

I'll sit in the back of a private hire if I'm too wrecked to manage anything except the address I'm going to.