I just like sitting there. Don’t got anyone to talk about it to that wont think im weird
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Is me wanting to sit there weird?
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Let fear not guide your emotions and your conduct.
Slow down, enjoy the ride with the other two in the front row. I do so in Jeepneys in a hilly part of the Philippines, up and and down, and I trust the driver’s intuition. Can I control what other drivers do in front of the Jeepney? No. But we’re not going that fast to begin with. Sooo, plenty of space, time for the driver to react when someone backs out a driveway that is barely the length by width of the vehicle occupying it! 
Not at all!
If the front seat, in a pickup or otherwise, is not punctuated with a center console bigger than a carry-on bag, and is wide enough for three, make use of that space.
I am I am old enough to remember waiting for the newspaper to come every day to see the battle lines in the Battle of the bulge in WWII> I as in trucking for 40 years and a school bus driver for more than 15. I have been driving since I was 12 and have well over 3 million miles in.
I have never deployed an airbag or been in an accident where a seat belt would have helped me.
Th only serious accident I have ever been in was a rollover accident with a bobtail tractor on the Thruway when I had to leave the road to avoid killing someone who slammed on his brakes as he was pulling in front of me. If I had been wearing my seat belt, I would have died at 54 because the roof came down flat on the drivers seat. Only the fact that the exhaust stack was on the right side of the tractorleft room for me as I dove to the right.
I would not have time to unbuckle a belt, as it was, my only injury aside from bumos and bruises was where the metal core of the aeatback went through the flesh of my upper left arm.
Some people seem to live in a climate of fear, I prefer not to. By the way, In school bus service we had Chevy suburbans with a fold up console for 3 across seating that we used all the time.
The best safety device in any vehicle is the driver and the worst driving habit I see is following too close. Why involve yourself in someone else’s accident?
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This!
But when I say the same thing I get static for it.
Some folks is lucky, some, not so much I guess!
Hey, what ever floats your boat man…
I’d rather you enjoy riding in the center seat than be a crazed maniac and hurting others… lol
I’m not gambling that the one in a thousand accident happens to me where a seatbelt is a problem. I’ll play the odds every time and buckle up.
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Of course.
If the front bench seat of a such-equipped 1980s-90s Caprice or Crown Vic had seatbelts for all three front occupants, common sense suggests using them.
I always tell folks, that seat belt is as much for a vehicle hitting the one you’re in, as it is to keep you in place in a crash of your own vehicle.
Same goes for taxiing around an airport. You could have the most competent cockpit crew on earth up front, but even they are helpless if another taxiing plane hits yours, or heaven forbid a high speed excursion from a runway slams into your plane. Just one or two unbelted passengers can become the ball in a proverbial pinball machine, inflicting injury upon other passengers as well as upon themself. Most ordinary folks don’t consider that side of the issue.
An old friend of mine claims his ‘constitutional right’ to not wear a seatbelt, the cautious driver I do know him to be. Well, his constitutional rights won’t protect him if a speeding driver loses control and heads-on into, or t-bones him.
Nope, if my dog is with me, she takes priority over a human.
Yes, people have sat in the center position, just rare to have three people in my truck.
My truck does have three point seat belt for center passengers.
4X4 control is electronic so no obstructions on the floor.
An old and unlikely true saying is you can tell who is the real cowboy, he is the one in the center, he doesn’t have to drive and he doesn’t have to get out to open the gate.
The way I read the original post was that the riding in the center was a choice and not really a necessary position . If the person rides there when the passenger seat is empty than that is not only a bad practice but foolish . At 250 pounds the person should really be in the passenger seat with 3 point belts and the lightest person in the center if 3 people really need to be in the front seat. A simple Google search will show just why this should be avoided as much as possible .
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When pumping gas in 66, we had one customer that ordered his Mustang with a bench seat(yes that was available) so his girlfriend could sit next to him.
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Yes, if I raised the cup tray you could sit there… But if you have every visited your kindergarten or 1st grade child’s school and tried to sit in their seat then you have some idea of what it’s like… The center seat is only 8" higher than transmission hump (while the driver’s and passenger’s seat height is about 14" to 16" higher than the floor.
There is no room under the dash to stretch your legs out and if you keep your feet flat on the hump, your knees are shoved way up…
I think you would be more comfortable sitting like this if you wanted the center seat in the front… 
Im ok with my legs up a bit 
I get what you mean though.
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I wear seat belts in a car but I seldom wore them in a tractor -trailer. A seat belt in a tractor trailer is not much use because tractor -trailers don’t stop so fast in an accident that the main danger is not you slamming into the steering wheel, dashboard ir windshield, the main dangers are intrusion, crushing by hitting some thing solid like a bridge abutment or being run over by your own trailers.
I drove mostly unionized class 1 common carriers. Our trucks were mostly the cheapest ones on the market. We were required by contract to have air ride seats , also they were the cheapest ones made and there was no attempt to coordinatr the mounting of each so they worked well with each other. An air ride seat is to absorb the bumps and has to be free to move up and down and to a certain amount to slide forward and back . Air ride seats should be bolted to the floor with the seat belts bolted to the seat frame so the belts go up and dowm with the movement of the seat. Many of the freight trucks had them both bolted to the floor so every bump tightened the belt so it was cutting you in half and most companies operations were such that you got a different tractor evey trip or sometimes every leg of every trip so you could not tailor a tractor to fit you.
I wear seatbelts as much for what might hit me, as for what I might collide with.