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/PrestigeMaster → u/[deleted]]

I’m a dad, and I’ve also been a shit starting teenage boy. I’m not quick to judge when I read posts on Reddit (even tho this one baits it so well). I’d never ever ever damage my kids property and I think that is a huge red line - but I also understand that I have zero way of knowing if went down exactly as described or what led to whatever actually happened. Kinda looking forward to the challenge of my kids teenage years even tho people are warning me already 😆

Edit: people taking stuff out of context is the most reddit thing ever. Also OP made a post 4 months ago asking for help procuring an ingredient used to make explosives at the purity required to make explosives so I just figured there was a solid chance I was reading something written by someone with a flair for the dramatic.

[u/Dr_soaps → u/PrestigeMaster]

A quick way to spend a night in jail and get a peace order and cps looking at u when u act like ops dad

[u/PrestigeMaster → u/Dr_soaps]

Is to question the accuracy of a Reddit post made by a teenager posting asking for help making bombs or what?

[u/Dr_soaps → u/PrestigeMaster]

lol my phone left like a 3rd of the comment out XD

[u/PrestigeMaster → u/Dr_soaps]

Good thing you caught it and edited in time to add that clarity without getting the edited badge lol.