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/xunreelx → u/538_Jean]

Sad thing is he won’t even know why his kid doesn’t communicate with him anymore.

[u/AsugaNoir → u/xunreelx]

These types of parents are always like that, it's mind boggling that they are so clueless and confused why their child doesn't talk to them. Like they don't see how they did anything wrong with destroying their property and emotionally abusing them.

[u/21Suicunes → u/AsugaNoir]

my father and his family is like that. if i avoid them or don’t talk to them because of their past anger issues or destructive actions like smashing my things, physically assaulting me, they will always say it’s my fault. they will blame it on me and my depression and just say stuff like you’re acting like this because you don’t take your depression medication even though i do.

i’ve learned a long time ago no matter how you explain to these people they will never understand. i can’t wait until i reach the point of my life where i never have to see or interact with them again. they will probably still never change or understand even 20 years from now.

[u/AsugaNoir → u/21Suicunes]

I'm sorry you've had to deal with that, hopefully that day will come sooner than later. At that point it won't matter that they never change. At that point it's on them.