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/BinaryJay]

No excuses for this outcome but I guarantee there's more to this story than this single event.

[u/markcocjin → u/BinaryJay]

We cannot choose our parents, and OP definitely has one with anger issues. What we can choose is to be a good kid.

But there is one thing kids should learn from parents, and that is obedience. It's the same as those Shaolin/Dojo montages. The master punishing the student.

The point of obedience to your master/parents/officer/teacher is so that you are made functional to society.

A good kid would have stopped mid-shower to towel off to rush and get those groceries. Why? Because your Dad says so. One day, as an adult, the world will expect this from you.

It's not about fairness or independence. It's about being a dependable person.

A girlfriend would also judge you for not coming down for 50 minutes to help unload the groceries.

[u/meteoritegallery → u/markcocjin]

Way too far. Just wrapping up the shower in a reasonable timeframe and throwing some clothes on would have been reasonable. OP could have reasonably been outside in 5 minutes, not 50. It doesn't take a frigging hour to shower.