1mo ago

Hold on babe

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The electric ones are cool as fuck, you can sit on the front and drive them like a car, I used to start at midnight at my retail job, our one was my personal vehicle around the store all night untill the miserable fun police came in to tell me it's not safe.
- Once again proving your name wrong, if I had any self awareness I’d probably worry how often I agree with someone named dumbass
- I was 16 on my first summer job in a grocery store warehouse, and the day one of the adults tasked me to start driving the pallets around, two at a time with the long electric one, after putting pallets together for days, felt like the best day of my life.
  I kept doing that job for every day forward voluntarily, while no one else would. Until the miserable fun police came and assigned me to a shift in the walk in cooler/freezer section in the basement. Sure, all the Neapolitan and yogurts I could stomach, but I also promptly got a cold that floored me for days.
  Fuck you, Steve.
  
  dont you need a license/cert to drive one?
Sure, until you hit the first pebble or chunk of wood.
- Or need to corner a little too hard
  
  I got banned from the Pallet Jack Racing League™ at my old warehouse job for being too good at drifting.
  I invoked the rule of 2 and started training an apprentice, but then the fun police told us it was an "OSHA violation" and someone was going to get hurt so we had to stop racing.
  Disputes were still settled by jousting on them with dustmop lances, though.
or OPs mom
- I think those things have a maximum of 2500 lbs
- ...wait a minute...
Used to work in a warehouse and you could move pump jacks forward while standing on them by leaning left and right while turning the handle left and right in tandem.
Sorta like on a swing the momentum builds up until you’re cruising nicely.
- Kinda like how you move one of these?
  
  Yes, just with no brakes.
  To stop you had to quickly turn the handle to the left or right to skid out and slow down.
On a pallet jack built for twoooo
That's the boogaloo? I've heard so much about the scooter for two, electric boogaloo.
A twoter.
Yea don't take the yellow one with two people.
Two of my colleagues tried, one on each side. Did not go well, luckily they got up in one piece.
- luckily they got up in one piece.
  I suppose these are very bottom-heavy, given their use, but I wouldn't have thought riding one would be that dangerous ? What happens when one does that ?
  
  The wheels will snag on the smallest of debris; then your instinct is to brace yourself against the handle, but it hinges away from you so you fall forward with nothing but the ground to stop you.
  
  It's basically a skateboard with front wheels that can turn if you lean on the handle.
  When my colleagues were playing, the car made an unexpected pretty sharp turn, which caused them to tumble off and fall on the concrete.
  And yes, the wheels will also hang on small stones, small pieces of wood and what not. Which is fine, because it's made for moving pallets, not people.
They even come in an electric powered version! 😃
Funnily enough, the green looks to be Bolt branding and here in Bolt's homeland, the other, smaller local brand with escooters around town uses yellow as their colour.
- The yellow one is for two couples.

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