Do you sit next to your significant other in a truck?

[DisneyBeagle]

We have an old truck that we really only use when we need to haul things, but last night we decided to drive the truck to dinner to make sure that the battery started since it has been sitting in the garage all winter. I come into work this morning and had the following conversation with my coworker (let's call her Beverly).

Beverly: We saw you guys last night driving through the parking lot.
ME: Oh really.
Beverly: I'm sorry if this isn't any of my business, but I'm worried about you. Are you and your husband having problems?
ME: What would make you think we're having problems?
Beverly: Because when we passed you in the truck you weren't sitting next to him.
(I would have loved to have a photo of my face when she said that )
ME: I haven't sat next to a guy in a truck since I was a teenager. My husband and I are doing well.
Beverly: I'm glad to hear that, but it seems to me that happy couples always sit next to each other.

Luckily my phone rang so I didn't have to continue that conversation.

 

[Stacerita]

Nope, I sit in the passenger seat that has the full seatbelt. I just feel safer that way. And besides, sitting right next to him on the bench seat isnt' that comfortable. Especially with a stick shift right there.

 

[OctMtnWoods]

LOL. I would have reacted the same way. No, I haven't sat next to a man in a truck since my teen years either.

Well, not unless we are trying to cram 3 people in it anyway.

Come to think of it, I owned a truck in my college years, and the guys never sat right up close to me either.

 

[freckles and boo]

We had an older pick-up until a couple of years ago. Considering there were no airbags and the center belt was just a lap belt and the gear shift was on the floor, NO I didn't sit right next to him. Somehow we have made it nearly 20 years, even without being fully attached at the hip.

 

[Imzadi]

I don't sit on the hump. I like my feet to go in the foot well. And I like to be able to lean my arm against the window or look out the window. Also, you really can't sit right by the driver without getting elbowed when he turns right.

 

[NotUrsula]

I would have laughed and said, "No, we're just a little old to be acting like high school kids in public."

I'm just imagining it, at my age.

 

[Handbag Lady]

Uhm, no.



I need my space and it would freak him out if I sat too close like that.

 

[SwedishMeatball]

Beverly is a bonehead.

 

[DisneyBeagle]

Beverly is a bonehead.

You know, this isn't the first time I have thought that.

 

[maelstrom]

I'm pretty sure that when my dad still had his pick-up truck (this was a *long* time ago), my mom sat in the regular passenger seat. However, we did take the pick-up truck to Florida one year, and I sat in the middle of the bench seat all the way there (I was about three years old and very tiny). I don't know why we took the pick-up truck instead of my mom's car; maybe she didn't want my dad to videotape the entire drive to Florida (from New York) from the passenger seat again like he did the year before.

 

[disykat]

Sure, and I awkwardly straddle the gears and dh gets a grab in every time he shifts!

I knew some guys in high school with very old trucks with huge gears in the middle. Sitting in the middle (which was usually because there were way too many of us in the front of that truck) involved lots of fumbling, blushing, and apologies!

 

[allison443]

I've never even sat in a truck!

 

[HunnyPots]

Gee, you probably don't make out at the movies anymore either. Yep, sure sign of a troubled marriage... She's an idiot, most likely trying to start some juicy gossip.

 

[shortbun]

Stay away from Beverly, she's a trouble maker. lol!

 

[WL Fan]

Me neither! Sitting next to him would involve moving 6-12 months worth of bungee cords, greasy wrenches, empty mcdonald's cups, assorted bolts, wrappers from little debbie cakes, varying lengths of chain and work gloves!

Perhaps Beverly needs to mind her own business?

 

[Carly_Roach]

ME: I haven't sat next to a guy in a truck since I was a teenager. My husband and I are doing well.
Beverly: I'm glad to hear that, but it seems to me that happy couples always sit next to each other.

Don't you love people who decide what your relationship is with your husband based on a 2 second snapshot of your life? If she saw me in the supermarket arguing with my DH over how to tell a good ear of corn without taking the husk off to check, she'd be telling me that we need to seek counseling.

Ignore Beverly. She doesn't sound like someone who'd give good advice on marriage.

 

[disneyjunkie]

I've never even sat in a truck!

The last time I was in a truck, I was about 9 or 10 years old.

 

[MarkBarbieri]

I have a friend who was one of three guys in a truck. They were sitting three abreast on the front bench. My friend was on the passenger side. They pulled up to a light and my friend noticed the truck next to them was filled with attractive young ladies. He quickly ducked down out of sight. When the ladies looked over at their truck, all they could see was two guys sitting right next to each other. The other two guys weren't happy at all about the message that sent.

 

[Lady V]

We had a name for riding next to each other. the person in the middle was riding b****. very tacky but that is what I always heard it called. So-just tell Beverly that you don't ride that way!!!

 

[MosMom]

Many moons ago my dad was driving his car with our blonde Afghan hound in the passenger seat. A nosy co-worker was behind him and confronted him about his affair with the blonde. Nosy co-workers aren't to be trusted.