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So last Sunday

sidruid and I accompanied several of my family members to New Hope, which is a ride of about 45 minutes. And while on the way there we started talking, and it seemed that both of us had pretty much always sat on the same side in the backseat when we were younger, and that as adults, we still kind of do. I naturally gravitate towards the seat behind the driver, and he always sits behind the passenger. It's not like either of us kick others out, but... yeah. So take the poll, it's just like research for social sciences.

[Poll #350509]

ps. I'd like to wholeheartedly recommend the taco place near the train tracks in New Hope. Mmmm tasty!

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But, I'd like to point out that the reason I currently have a side is because if I sit on the left side of the car, I can't hear anyone in the car. Which can be a bonus, at times, but more often is just highly annoying.

I KNEW that was the taco place you meant!

I answered "other" to #4. I'm 6'3". I sit behind whomever's shortest and can move his or her own seat the furthest up, so that my knees aren't under my chin.

Actually, I can't remember the last time I sat in the backseat of a car.

Yeah, and see, a lot of us just don't sit in the backseat that often, so it's likely something that doesn't come up.

But yeah, someone else told me that offline too.

I had no seat in the car as a child because we didn't have a car. My father died never having owned a car. He had a driver's license, but I think he let it expire around 1954. My mother learned to drive when I was about 20 and living 1700 miles away. :)

Now, I could tell you what part of the train or bus I sat in. As a child, I sat near the front of the bus because I used to get nauseous. I sat up front -- facing front -- and looked out of the driver's window. I got over it as I grew older.

When I was a teenager and taking the train by myself into Center City Philadelphia, I always sat in the train car where the conductor wasn't when I was getting on. I'd sit there and be in the middle of a book when the conductor came by, looking as if I paid. I never paid on the ride in. (On the ride home, well, everyone got on at the same place, more-or-less, so you had to show a ticket.) Oh, and this trick did not work with groups of teens. However, I never paid to ride into Philly as a teen. Neither did my friends when they rode solo. Yes, that's why SEPTA lost so much money in the '70s. ;)

Well, when I was little, I got to sit "on the hump" in the middle because I usually sat in between my cousins in big family outings. Otherwise I'd either sit up front beside the driver or in the back left, behind the driver. I still prefer to sit shotgun or behind when I'm not driving.

Coincidentally, today is hump day!!!

Sorry... I just couldn't resist.

I prefer to be behind the driver, though other than knowing that fact, I never really thought much beyond it.

It's okay. I forgive you. ;D

My grampa had a station wagon with one of those backwards-facing seats in the trunk area, and that was my preferential seat. In other cars, I'd either get the hump or sprawl all over the whole backseat, depending on if there were other people in the back or not. As an adult, I'm the driver 99% of the time, and when I'm a passenger I usually get shotgun, but if I'm in the back I tend to prefer driver's side.

We didn't eat around an actual table that often, more usually we'd grab food and take it back to whatever we were working on elsewhere. At other people's family gatherings, I tend to wind up at the kids' table or equivalent, which is probably fair enough considering I never really managed to "grow up". ^_^

My grandpa had one of those, too! I ♥ed it!!!

He called it the "dodo seat", "'cuz dodos flew backwards and that's why they died out!" *giggle*

Note please that it is not only possible to have both older and younger siblings, it's actually fairly common.

Oh, yeah, I guess that's a point. Hmmn. Didn't occur to me really. Most of my friends are one of two, for no apparent reason.

It's funny, I never really noticed the whole sitting on the same side thing. But I have noticed I'm that way when it comes to sleeping. I always sleep on the same side and hardly use the rest of the bed. It's very noticeable in hotels when you wake up in the morning and the other half of the bed is still made.

I always sleep on the side of the bed closest to the bathroom.

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