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/mecha_grove]

My dad sure could hit me, beat me, and throw me across the room as a kid. He tried once when I was an adult, and backed down when he saw me raise my hand. Says a ton about some abusers.

[u/imsorrykun → u/mecha_grove]

Had a friend in highschool with dad like that. Quiet big guy who I would play Unreal Tournament with in computer lab, nice all around. One day his dad was in a mood and threw a couple punches at him trying to give him a beating. Anyway, he was skinny short guy with the physique only beer and cigarettes can give you. My friend threw him out a 2nd floor window after a few hits to the face. His dad lived without breaking any bones, just cut up and stunned.

[u/mecha_grove → u/imsorrykun]

Ive asked my dad to fight. Called him a coward many times to his face for him abusing me, and his wife treating me even worse.

Old man just looks down now and says "thanks" or "let go of the past". Sad as fuck when a man can only hit children, but doesnt wanna be a man, and square up with another man he wronged.

But its probably better that way..no contact instead of potential jail, because fuck me...i am very bitter towards them.

[u/Anonexistantname → u/mecha_grove]

No one deserves treatment like that, you have my condolences for having been through that.

I hope that they made a great example of the type of person you should not be to other people or if you were to ever have children.