I often struggle
I think of all the stuff around my house. The car is a bug one, but also my mitre saw, table saw, and any other powered saw. Also my ladder, mandolin (the kitchen one, not the instrument), and large knives. The things I need to be sober to use safely.
There’s also “light machinery”, which i can use when i’m less than sober but not super messed up on anything. My lawn mower is a push mower for example, so as long as i’m good to walk I can mow the lawn safely. Using a drill/driver is fine. Sanding, even the electric sander, is fine. Soldering is fine. I might have a drink or two and work on my server, either hardware of software, but I have learned to stop if I get too drunk. One of the most important parts of enjoying marijuana is learning how to make food while high.
Being under the influence of alcohol or drugs is a great time to use your mandolin (the instrument, not the kitchen one)
They mean driving?
No. Cars are heavy and made of machinery. So is a forklift or a wrecking ball or crane. So if I’m blotto on the goof-juice, not trying to control that sort of thing seems like a good idea.
I find it funny that the med that makes me comfortable driving is the one with that warning lol
Also, I live in heavy machinery soooooo
It includes all those things, no?
It does. Vehicles, forklifts, cranes… If you could reasonably steer it over a person you wouldn’t want to do so on certain medications.
I just had to do an entire learning module about this at work actually. They absolutely do mean cars.
Yeah I never think of cars, I thought it was more like industrial stuff
Obligatory Forklift Driver Klaus
Should be noted that it’s a PSA that is (or at least was) actually used in training
Get your shit together, Klaus
Like schipelblorp says. Plus it essentially means don’t work with heavy machinery, and if you do and get injured, you’re not likely to be able to sue employer or machinery company successfully as you were mentally compromised. And you can’t sue the pharmaceutical company as you were warned.
It doesn’t even have to be driving, forklift does apply, but so does a crane (a lot of factories have gantry cranes for moving stuff), or even operating machines that require your attention like manual lathe or presses.
A car is just most common, and most likely to cause harm out of those if you get dizzy, but you can still hurt yourself with plenty of other machines if you’re inattentive, sleepy or dizzy.My mind goes literaly to “don’t operate the finger choppy things”
Which finger choppy things do you have in mind?
All of them.
EDIT: I’m sorry, work equipment. Like the ones that bend tin, or grind plastic.
Yes. But i think the confusion is intentional. In car-dependent societies, not driving is the same as not working, not shopping, and not seeing friends.
