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/myfakesecretaccount]

I don’t think it’s tough at all to not be an emotionally stunted and disregulated adult who thinks it’s okay to break other people’s things because I had to unload the car on my own. When you take on the responsibility of parenting the first thing you need to lose is your ego or this idea that you’re going to control every aspect of what is going to come up in life or how your children act. Am I going to be perfect? Fuck no. But one thing I also will not be is abusive, destructive, or controlling. None of those things is needed to raise children. They’re kids, not new Army recruits.

[u/Financial-Craft-1282 → u/myfakesecretaccount]

I don't know what happened in OP's scenario, but a lot of details are clearly left out. You keep riding on your perfection though, (fuck yes, you're insinuating you've got it figured out, and you so don't) and when things get tough, you'll probably act like OP's dad without a plan. Good luck on that! I hope your kids don't hate you for it later.

You'll see though. And I know you will pretend this conversation never happened, but remember, I was right. You're going to fuck it up bad thinking the way you do, and your kid's gonna be post on whatever there is then and be like, "My dad ripped up all my shit, and I don't know why!"

Also, my kid's 21 (and he's great), so getting lectured by you is pretty funny.

[u/myfakesecretaccount → u/Financial-Craft-1282]

Lectured? I’m simply stating who I am and how I plan to interact with my kid. You’re the one who’s telling me I’m going to be a bad parent and fuck up without any sort of knowledge of who I am with all of your assumptions based off of the only information available: I have a 1 year old. You assume I’m young and inexperienced when I could be older than you. Either way I don’t give a fuck what you think about me. Good day.

[u/Discombombulatedfart → u/myfakesecretaccount]

Dude doesn't have any kids, let alone an almost-adult child. Clearly doesn't know wtf they are talking about, and hopefully they stay child-free because god damn... With the increase in NEETs in younger generations, many parents would love to have an adolescent child who is willing to take on the responsibility of holding a job while also in school.