when you’re driving, who sits in the passenger seat? your mom or your wife/girlfriend?

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1. Whoever gets there first. I personally don’t care.

   If people are making an issue out of the seating priority in a car between family members they need to find someone else to bug.

2. My mom, because she gets motion sickness when sitting in the back.

3. Have them take the front and rock it in the back seat

4. Girlfriend is always in the back so my wife knows she’s number 1.

5. My mom drives because she is a shit passenger and I can’t take it. Every time I get to a stop light she’ll grab handles and brace for impact while sucking her teeth in. It’s incredibly stressful.

   My girlfriend just likes being the passenger, so she can change the music and use her phone if she wants. And I really enjoy driving

   Edit: I just realized that I didn’t answer your question correctly. My girlfriend is very traditional (yet progressive, it’s weird), so she always defers to anyone her senior. Which means my mom would be in the front passenger seat

6. I would not be in any car ride with my mom, my wife, and my girlfriend.

7. Girlfriend. I avoid driving my mother anywhere. She stresses the shit out of me and talks like she’s a driving instructor, saying shit like “Don’t forget to stop at the red light”, so it’s never pleasant

8. Wife

9. When I got my first girlfriend mom said this to me “don’t bother trying to make *me* happy. I’m your mom, I know you love me, your girl doesn’t, make her happy”

10. Mine are both likely to offer to sit in the back so it’s never really an issue.

    But if it was an issue then my wife gets the front seat. She’s my wife, I am *always* on her team. She’s my most intimate partner and always comes first no matter what we’re talking about (unless it’s our kids).

    I love my mother to pieces and will happily sacrifice for her any time. But my wife is my first concern.

11. Whoever calls dibs first

12. Policemen, but I am on the passenger seat.

13. I’ll let them handle the awkward shit. I have no preference.

14. I usually go by which ever ingress/egress is better for my mom.

    I’m in my 50s so my mom is getting up in age. If I’m driving my sedan, mom goes in the back. Any of my two doors, my wife is in the back. If I’m driving my pickup, my mom goes in front because it has the grab handle and a step.

15. Wife.

    My mum’s a shortarse.

16. My wife drives everywhere because she needs to be focused on something

17. No one

18. My girlfriend because my mum is scared of sitting next to me when I drive.

19. Girlfriend/wife should offer the passenger seat. Maybe I’m old school but it’s about respecting your elders.

20. my mother. seniority gets the leg room.

21. Wife. My mom is dead.

22. Always the Wife it’s her car also after all

23. My mom is getting old, so she’s in front. Unless my dad is with us, then he’s in front since he has severe backpain.

    PS: This is a european guy commenting. Most of us don’t have SUVs or trucks or other oversized vehicles, so going in the back can mean less space.

24. mom always

25. Whenever I drive both of them around my mom insists my gf sits in the front. My gf is 5’8” while my mom is barely 5’1” so it makes sense lol

    Saves me having to pick

26. Significant other in the front. It’s straight up weird that some guys will pick their mom over their wife.

27. Wife. My mother is a horrible passenger who can’t keep her back seat driving to herself.

28. I’d put my wife/gf in front, idk why just sounds correct, i’d feel my parents would do the same in the past so.

29. My wife.

    My mother would be lucky to be inside the car.

    My stepmother better drive her own car.

30. No one. I don’t have a girlfriend, I don’t have a car, I don’t have a room. I have depression