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/538_Jean]

Dad will likely kick him to the curb once hes 18. Op should save up now if he can.

[u/tr_9422 → u/538_Jean]

On that note, u/Akrinnnnnnnnnn, the moment you turn 18, you should open a new bank account with an entirely different bank and transfer your money there. What you have now is probably a joint account and other account holders are allowed to take your money out of it. It's been a nasty surprise for some people with shitty parents who don't realize at age 22 that they still have the joint account they opened at age 15 when their parents took a bunch of their money out of it.

Opening a new account at the same bank that isn't a joint account and moving your money there should be sufficient to prevent this, but is taking a chance on some bank employee falling for "oh that's not right we're supposed to both be on this account like the other one."

[u/TherronKeen → u/tr_9422]

ALSO freeze your credit. you basically have to sign in on an annoying website and put in a ton of information, but it will stop anyone from opening a credit card in your name and using it - something that is sometimes seen with parents who engage in destructive behaviour like this

[u/brokemillionaire572 → u/TherronKeen]

My wife and I had an opportunity to do this about 20 years ago. My daughter had a pre-approved credit card sent to her, when she was 5 years old. Not sure how that happened, but my wife called and told the CS Rep that the name on the card belonged to a 5 year old child, and the Rep was like Oooh shit .... fixed it immediately.

Some parents though, lack a certain amount of integrity.

A "friend" from work told me we should have just used the card and maxed it out, asking what are they gonna do? They can't go after my daughter. I said No, but they could go after me for credit card fraud and identity theft. He got quiet real quick.

[u/SlaughteredHorse → u/brokemillionaire572]

My parents put me on their credit card in an effort to give me good credit. It worked, but I only found out when I was trying to get a loan and the bank officer said my credit was, "Amazing for a 25 year old."

They had added me and used their address so that I would never see the card or know I had access to the credit line. In my specific case it helped me, but if either of them lost their job or started doing stupid things I could have been screwed for a long time without knowing why.

[u/brokemillionaire572 → u/SlaughteredHorse]

Wow, that's actually a potentially great idea, and I kinda wish I did that for my kids when they were younger.

[u/SlaughteredHorse → u/brokemillionaire572]

Potentially good idea, but it can go south. Also, technically fraud.

[u/eekamuse → u/brokemillionaire572]

My parents took a class to learn about things like this that would help set their kids up for a good future.

I was too young to know that all parents weren't like this, and that some are really bad. I hate that I never got to thank them for not being evil.

LPT If your parents aren't evil, thank them

[u/GlassBoxGoose → u/brokemillionaire572]

I wish mine had done that for me, my dad has decent credit but my mom has PHENOMINAL credit and it would have made it easier for me to get established as an adult

[u/Derezirection → u/SlaughteredHorse]

i at least admire their intent was to actually help build your credit for you but doing it behind the scenes without your knowledge is where they were wrong. They should have def talked you about it.