Well, it suggests that you may not be somebody who’s in the thick of things, so to speak. Or you are deferring to other people out of respect. Or you are simply someone who keeps a low profile. Whatever, you understand that seats in the front rows are actually the better seats.
In a theatre, the front seats, allowing one a better view of the actors and actresses, are more expensive.
A still better example is the car or bus. If you drive, you sit in the diver’s seat, which is the driving seat, one that’s in control of things. Then there’s the front seat besides and then one or several rows of back seats.
The back seats don’t offer much of a view and therefore are considered less desirable. In segregation-era America, black and other colored people were forced to take back seats, with the front seats reserved for white folks. Rosa Parks, if you recall “the first lady of civil rights” (who died in 2005), once refused to give her seat to a white person and move further back the bus when she was ordered to do so by the driver (who did so in accordance with the law at the time). Her refusal, making a long story short, helped change America.
The long and short of it all is the back seat is not a prominent position to be in. It has no views and less of a role to play. While people sitting in the front seats are sometimes asked to give directions, people sitting in the back seats have no such responsibility.
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