How old were you when...

[alice44]

I'm too old to remember having to sit in the back seat - except when both my parents were in the front 

[potluck6]

don't remember but know we had no seat belts. now its just automatic you put them on.

[sbenkoski]

I grew up in the 60's....we just rolled around in the car and rode in the back of pickup trucks....

Same here, we went to Calif. when i was little maybe 5 and we had a station wagon with NO air i rode in the back with the dog and suitcases... i remember very well coz i got yelled at for getting orange juice all over and it was sticky and i was covered with dog hair and sand. I was not a happy camper ! 

[bigfoot951]

My first thought was that it's crazy that you even remember.  But if you were that old then its understandable that you do remember.  Seems insane to me that she waited that long.  I can't even remember ever sitting in the back seat.

[ancmetro]

     Going to movies, visiting friends and much more...
     with so many kids in the car, I always sat in the back seat.
     I sat for the first time in the driver's seat when I was 12
     years old, to learn the dashboard-what to do and not do.
     I was an early learner.

[elvisdo]

I was at least 6 or 7, I believe, when I first rode in the first seat.

[plennis]

Growing up in the 60's and 70's it was not an issue, so we sat wherever there was a seat available.

[samanthahan]

I didn't sit in the front til I was maybe 17! I was old enough to drive myself! I didn't mind tho, I really didn't care haha

[Skyisbluetoday]

I'm unsure at what age I was to be able to ride in the front seat, cause as long as I can remember I was able to ride in the front seat. Maybe when I got out of the car seat's. Which I was supper young! 

[jkhanson]

I grew up in a time where there were no rules and regulations about where children sat in a car.  We didn't even have seat belts, and piling into the back of a pickup truck was the best way to haul a bunch of kids to their favorite activity. I do understand why safety should prevail, but I don't personally know of any peers who came to harm from having less stringent safety rules.

I grew up during the same time.  No seat belts, no baby car seats, no rules about where we could or could not sit.  I am one of 7 kids.  5 in the back....4 sat on the seat, my brother stood on "the hump" , and the youngest 2 were up in front with Mom and Dad.

[bshee58]

it was lot of us so we didn't actually took turns to sit in the front seat.

[sak4kat]

I don't think it was ever a thing when I was growing up.  Being 1 of 5 kids it was just a matter of the seat being available.  And since there was such a gap in age between my siblings and I it was rare that it was ever an issue.  With my kids I've been lenient on the issue.  Probably not a good thing.  Once the kids met 80#'s or 8 years old I was flexible with it...the older and heavier they got the more flexible I became.

[ghunter]

I cannot remember if I ever rode in the front seat, because it was five of us.

[MichelleHW101]

Oh my goodness.  I grew up in the 80's and 90's and my parents had an old station wagon where the entire family piled in the car.  We didn't have car seats, not really so in my earlier childhood memories I sat up front.  I was always strapped in the 'shotgun' passenger seat up front while my brothers were in the back seated in the laps of my grandparents. 

[natashaspy]

Pretty much as soon as I was out of a car seat.  Of course I'm in my mid 40s so my parents weren't as worried about things like that lol.