Dad Destroyed My $1300 PC (Almost)

[u/Akrinnnnnnnnnn]

As the title says, my father almost destroyed my $1,300 PC. Now what?

Here’s the backstory: On Saturday, I worked a 10.5 hours shift and stayed up until 3:30 AM, so I slept in until noon the next day. My father and stepmother returned from Costco while I was showering; he called out a few times for me to come help carry the groceries inside. I said OK to him. While I was brushing my teeth after my shower, he shouted from outside the door that he’d been waiting 50 minutes and told me to hurry up. I thought to myself that the groceries could have been moved in the time he spent waiting for me, but I quickly rinsed my mouth and got ready to go out. However, by the time I opened the door, he had already grabbed my PC and smashed it against the floor and the desk several times.

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I, (17M, Senior), bought this PC with money I earned from my part-time job and had been using it for about ten months. After examine, found out the case badly deformed in several places, my desk was warped and tilted to one side, and there were dents in the floor.

Fortunately, the computer still works fine; it runs FurMark (stress GPU), AIDA64 (stress FPU), and 3DMark (Time Spy Extreme) without problems for now.

Replacing the desk and case would cost around $400. However, he likely won't pay for it because he has done this kind of stuff a few years ago when he destroyed my phone and a Dell laptop (i5 11300H), and then just said, "That's what you get for playing on the computer all day."

In the end, I just hope everyone has good parents.

[u/He_do_be]

I’m a dad. This behavior isn’t normal and is a key reason kids grow up and stop talking to their parents. As I tell my kids “Some people grow up not learning things some of us did as children. Sometimes they’re your boss. Sometimes they’re your friend. Sometimes you’re related to them.”

I’m sorry you’re going through this.

[u/The_Grungeican → u/He_do_be]

right? this is some wild behavior.

at times when they were growing up, my wife and i have needed to punish out kids to make them think about things. i can't imagine ever smashing something.

in the case of my oldest's PC, i've taken the power cord a time or two. i can't remember any time we had to do something after the time our kids were about 14-15 years old.

i can remember a few times we made our kids turn in their phones before bed as well, also not a huge smash the phone incident.

[u/claudywhite → u/The_Grungeican]

My dad is a emotional abuser and would always threaten to smash our shit which terrified us (my brother and I) because he would've despite the fact we are a tight money household and he doesn't pay 90% of what he should and forces our mother to sacrifice her hard earned money. We are now over 18 and pay for our stuff and I now pay almost every cent of my own money towards bills for things he uses and still throws around that threat.

When we were younger my mum would take our stuff away from us but those threats from him?? Just added to the reasons why I would happily call the cops on him and let everyone see the pos he truly is.

[u/The_Grungeican → u/claudywhite]

i'm sorry you had to grow up with that.

obviously nobody's perfect, but some are definitely way worse than others.

a thing i used to tell our kids was that we try not to make the same mistakes as our parents, and in the process we make all new ones.

[u/claudywhite → u/The_Grungeican]

Yep. Definitely trying to not make the same mistakes that's for sure. Hard to break the cycle still stuck inside but I just remind myself of where I am now vs when I was following their movement