Picture this hypothetical situation. You're getting into a taxi, in which you will be the only occupant. Ignoring the environmental ramifications of that hideous waste of resources, where do you sit? In the front, with the driver, or alone in the back?

Admittedly, this is probably only an issue in places like Australia where it's an option. I mean, I gather that it's pretty much illegal to sit in the front in New York, and who'd want to pass up sitting in the back of a London Black Cab? However, it occurred to me as I just put the Male in a taxi to take him to the airport, and he leapt straight into the front. I always sit in the back. (And wear my sunglasses, and stare out the window, and pretend I'm in a movie or at least a filmclip, but I think that's really beside the point, don't you?) I just wondered who did which, and what sort of grand trends you can pick out of that, and the reasons.

Just idle curiosity, really. Not going to change my thesis topic, or anything. Although that might be easier than trying to wrestle one out of the mass of reading that is both acceptable to me and the supervisor. But at least I know he's back in the country now, since I saw him at the pub last night. At that stage, we were trying to get together enough of a kitty to get Mike to stand up and perform his Fat Bob impression, so I didn't think it would be quite right to go and say hi.