Been there , done that.

I've also seen what happens when something goes wrong with that.

as a 16 yr old idk what this is. please enlighten me

It is the controls for an in-the-ground car hoist. Most of them have been replaced with an above-the- ground hoist.

They are fine until the moron working next to you blocks the handle, and you flip it without looking at it first.

When i first started working for the city we had a couple that used those things. But they were truck lifts, so instead of having a lift on the left and right of the vehicle controlled by a single valve, they had a fixed front lift, and the rear one could be moved front-back so it would hit the rear axle. There were two of those valves, one for the front and one for the rear. You had to finesse them so the vehicle lifted evenly front to rear, without tipping, and of course they were ancient and leaked oil, so when they got low, they'd not move at all until enough pressure built and then literally bounce up. Absolutely terrifying. I hated them.

When your wife/gf tries to explain something to you

oml!! so true lmbo

lol or my sister in my case

When I was going to college for automotive technology they still had a lift like that still in the floor. Only a very few select people were brave enough to try using it and even fewer were actually allowed to use it.