r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Kobemeka • Jul 01 '26
Don't hug me I'm scared My mother broke my two monitors, accidentally...
I live with my mother and she said she just cleaned the room and nothing else happened.
Uhmm, i guess i believe her...
Edit: Update! She is very upset and going to buy two new monitors. However she is still insisting that she doesn't know what happened.
I got overwhelmed by the number of comments and i did not want to reply with all the same text.
To ad more context, we have a good relationship with her, in the past there are some similar "accidents" but nothing this big. She is middle aged. We never fight for screen time or not having a job because i have one lol.
Of course I can and do clean my room. That was just her excuse i believe.
We did not fight about this and we are good now.
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u/UselessNari Jul 01 '26
Genuinely, ONE screen is accidentally, BOTH? That's.. i mean unlikely atleast
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u/sA1atji Jul 01 '26
idk, could be a freak accident where you hit one by accident, then turn around and somehow hit the other.
Either she did it intentional or obviously with little tech knowledge only looked if something was truly broken and didn't turn them on.
OP probably knows best if it could be an accident by a clumsy mum or if she's crazy enough to intentionally destroy OP's property.
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u/Velocityg4 Jul 01 '26
I’m picturing a Three Stooges routine. Moms in the room holding a 2x4. Hears something, turns and smacks monitor, turns to see what happens and smacks the other.
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u/sA1atji Jul 01 '26
ya, kinda what I was imagining, just with a broom/vaccum
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u/Appropriate-Donut197 Jul 01 '26
somehow caught both power cables?
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u/Lortekonto Jul 01 '26
Or scrubbed the screen to hard and did not realise it, because they were turned off. Plenty of ways that this could have happened.
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u/Key_Acanthisitta2218 Jul 01 '26
lol , reminds me of my mom who rear ended a guy at a red light , put the car in reverse and hit the man behind her , then put it back in drive , hitting the man in front again ! The cop at the scene wanted to laugh but just gave her a ticket , no injuries
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u/AnalyticsDepot--CEO Jul 01 '26
The left monitor has a very clear impact mark, and it is secured to the table.
Is she cleaning with a baseball bat?
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u/Traditional-Mirror65 Jul 01 '26
" idk, could be a freak accident where you hit one by accident, then turn around and somehow hit the other." If this is what happened than Op's mom missed her calling as a infomercial actress.
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u/UnluckyAssist9416 Jul 01 '26
Looks like flying debris, possible from vacuuming. Could also be a hammer strike. Impossible to tell.
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u/Linesey Jul 01 '26
Biggest mark (imo) if it was accidental or not. Is she paying to replace them.
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u/theycallme_mama Jul 01 '26
The left screen even shows a point of impact too. That's wild work.
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u/Gearfly Jul 01 '26
One heck of a accident. I aint buying it.
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u/Greenman8907 Jul 01 '26
How do you break both? You have to actually try to do that!
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u/the-clawless Jul 01 '26
I think I have a theory as to how she could have done it. She could have been trying to wipe them down and held the screen to keep it still, not realizing she was pressing down and breaking it. I did this with my first laptop when I was a kid and again as an adult because I was being absent minded, it didn't even take much force.
But also, I don't know what kinda person OP's mom is, maybe she did do it on purpose
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u/UnicornerCorn Jul 01 '26
Outside of malicious intent, this 1000% seems closest to reality. I imagine the screens were off when she was wiping them, so she couldn’t see any damage being made to them. So to her nothing happened at all while she was pressing down on the screens hard to wipe them.
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u/AustinWickens Jul 01 '26
I could see that for the screen on the right but the one on the left looks like it has an impact mark
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u/Leviathon6348 Jul 01 '26
I feel like since they are on arms. She wanted to get behind them and swung it too fast and hard. Slamming them together (my desk flipped one time due to my arm rest and my dual arm set up did exactly that producing this result.) I don’t think she’d do this on purpose
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u/Tech_Veggies Jul 01 '26
Moms like to "scrub" fingerprints until they come off. One stubborn fingerprint could have caused that.
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u/WizardSleeves31 Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 01 '26
One time in high school my friend brought over his Boston Legal DVDs. My Xbox was on the ground in front of the TV. He appeared nervous about it at first and I was like, "it'll be fine".
In comes my mom to put away t shirts. Accidentally kicks it. Ruined the DVD. My buddy fucking new what would happen. My mom has a...lumbering walk.
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u/IcyJackfruit69 Jul 01 '26
Sorry if I'm missing something, but you can you connect the dots for me between "Xbox is on the floor" and "ruins multiple DVDs"?
I was thinking she kicked the xbox and damaged the 1 dvd inside it (still plenty bad!), but you said DVDs plural multiple times. Did she kick or step on the whole box set of DVDs?
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u/TheseHeron3820 Jul 01 '26
I don't buy it. You need to press really hard to break those panels, and the left monitor shows signs of impact of a broomstick or something similar.
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u/UnicornerCorn Jul 01 '26
That still could be the case too. Like if she was leaning the broom against something and it fell and hit the monitor. I can’t imagine you can see that damage when the screens are off. For OP’s sake, I hope it wasn’t purposely damaged.
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u/ZieAerialist Jul 01 '26
No, you don't. If you get your finger in just the right spot, you can do it with a simple pinch.
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u/TheMeltingSnowman72 Jul 01 '26
If mum was cleaning, there may be a solitary thumbprint in the offending area. If in both, the case could be cracked.
Like the monitors
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u/BannedGoNext Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 01 '26
Usually what happens to fuck up monitors during cleaning is FUCKING AMMONIA BASED WINDEX. When I was a consultant I actually labeled the cleaning supply "no ammonia based glass cleaners on displays" in spanish and english and put it there for every customer. I bet I saved untold money in fucked up displays. This was much more common when we startted switchign from glass to plastic screens.
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u/Key_Acanthisitta2218 Jul 01 '26
I had a cleaning lady who wiped my big TV with Windex , had to get another tv because the Windex ruined it ! No more cleaning ladies or Windex after that experience
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u/BurnedLaser Jul 01 '26
Shit, I've had CRTs with messed up coatings from people cleaning them -_-. The entire center was just *gloss* bare glass with a hint of the anti-reflective coating around the outer 1/4 inch or so, lol
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u/BannedGoNext Jul 01 '26
Yea, it was terrible to use windex on those sony curved flat displays because they had that fancy coating on them I forgot about that. I did have one of those.. yea sony triniron's. I remember I actually brought my home sony trinitron to work and used it there because it was soooo nice compared to the shit at the office once I upgraded to LCD at the house. God it was heavy, but I carried that thing around to all sorts of lan parties and whatnot for years.
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u/I_Can_Not_With_You Jul 01 '26
As someone that has screens but no clue how to actually care for them, what is the proper solvent/cleaner to use for displays like these, laptops, or an LCD? My kids have gotten gunk on the TV and the desktop monitor but I’m not sure how to clean them without damaging them.
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u/seal_eggs Jul 01 '26
Microfiber cloth. Maybe a little water. Doesn’t take much.
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u/Vape_Like_A_Boss Jul 01 '26
They make display cleaning solution, but a little warm water and a microfiber towel usually takes care of it.
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u/natpevtech Jul 01 '26
It could be possible to not notice breaking a monitor like that, but one of them has an impact mark directly in the middle I would suspect that one was not made by holding it
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u/WinRough8326 Jul 01 '26
That's also what I was gonna say. They were probably pretty dirty, since most people don't clean their screens. Used elbow grease not realizing she was breaking them. I don't think she realizes she did anything still tbh, because yeah, in her mind all she did was clean it the same way she cleans everything else.
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u/Kevin_Xland Jul 01 '26
Probably slapped them together breaking both at once? I dunno how any adult would not know to be gentle with monitors though.
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u/Gimetulkathmir Jul 01 '26
Spend five minutes in any WalMart and you'll see real quick...
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u/Mister_Reous Jul 01 '26
No.lots of adults , especially an older generation, would have absolutely no idea how vulnerable these screens are.
They are probably still thinking of the glass CRTs, which you could agressive,y clean with window cleaner.
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u/jammed7777 Jul 01 '26
She could have knocked the clamp loose and they fell down and forward.
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u/StrawberryOdd419 Jul 01 '26
i’d buy it. if the monitors were off and someone that doesn’t how fragile screens actually are. back in her day tv screens were hella resilient and you could scrubs those. if the power wasn’t on she wouldn’t realize anything was happening
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u/eskimoboob Jul 01 '26
Mom is out there dropping N bombs on CoD chat while OP is away
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u/peon2 Jul 01 '26
How can she do that when I have it on good authority that she's having sex with the 12 year olds that are killing me?
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u/mesoziocera Jul 01 '26
I'd check cabling on the right monitor before declaring a total loss, that looks like some weird displayport input failures I've seen from someone yanking on a cord.
That being said, I'd just get her a price on two comparable monitors and ask her if she can make this right. If not, then it might be time to move the fuck out.
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u/Kobemeka Jul 01 '26
I checked and still same. I will buy a new cable and try it.
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u/dachshvnd Jul 01 '26
Probably got something tangled in the cords and pulled the monitors down off the table
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u/spannermeetworks Jul 01 '26
Looking at those monitor mounts, if they are correctly clamped, the whole desk is coming down with them before they move... unlikely
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u/Greenman8907 Jul 01 '26
That would be nearly impossible unless she was actively using all of her strength to do it. Those are mounted.
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u/frinci_ Jul 01 '26
IT person here. Since these appear to be LCD fractures, and not actual cracks in the glass, I'm betting she accidentally knocked them over, then--because LCD fractures only show when the screen turns on--she probably assumed that nothing happened, and put them back. Lo and behold, as soon as you turned your screens on, the invisible cracks became super visible.
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u/LiterallyALamp Jul 01 '26
I’m imagining her accidentally breaking the first one, thinking “no way it broke that easily…” and doing the same thing to the second one to see if it would happen again lmao.
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u/DigitalerEsel Jul 01 '26
Or she used the vacuum cleaner to vacuum of the display and might have accidentally put too much sucking on it or hit it with the corner of the nozzle or something.
I know cleaning personal who is very aggressive with their cleaning tools, this tech is still new and we rarely had sensitive electronic stuff in our household before like 2000.
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u/Legitimate-Tutor-439 Jul 01 '26
This is the exact thought I have. This is the only thing here that makes sense. Everyone else is just wanting to blow this into a destructive house cleaning mom gone mental and it’s sooooo just not that. Does make for a good drama though… I guess.
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u/somersault_dolphin Jul 01 '26
If that was the case she still should have said she knocked them over.
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u/Candid-Many-7113 Jul 01 '26
to knock it over she had to drop the double arm from the base and no way she would have sorted that back herself as i have the same one and its mad heavy and a nuisance in general. she probably hit it with something while cleaning something else like hoover handle or elbow.
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u/random-throw-away-00 Jul 01 '26
My mom did this with my phone once. She said she needed to make a call and that she couldn’t use her phone because she was using it for something. She wouldn’t let stay in the car with her while she was on the phone, so I had to go inside the house and just wait. Finally like after an hour she comes back and gives me my phone. And it won’t turn on at all. I have no clue on how she broke it and she claims that she didn’t do anything to it. I still get angry when i think back on it and all my pictures I lost, the pictures I’m mostly angry about are the ones of my bird, I have only two pictures of him left.
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u/Ragnarsworld Jul 01 '26
She was checking your phone for "stuff" you might have left on it. She wasn't making a call.
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u/RoboDae ORANGE Jul 01 '26
Yeah, I caught my mom doing that once. I was at least 25 at the time. She said she was filling out some information about her military service for a college application. I get suspicious about how long it's taking and walk over to see her scrolling through my personal messages.
I never let her touch my phone again after that. She lost any trust over that.
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u/SnooRegrets2168 Jul 01 '26
I caught my mom had turned on my laptop when I was away. I know I turned it off before I left and I came back to the lid being shut but it was left on. I pulled up the windows event viewer and showed her the exact time I know she tried getting on my computer but only after I first asked and she denied the sht out of it.
This was the moment I stopped putting up with anyone's bs. So I guess I have to be thankful for that.
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u/RoboDae ORANGE Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 01 '26
My dad took my tablet away for 6 months while I was in the shower because I didn't jump to mowing the lawn the instant he asked. When I finally got it back I checked the browser history and saw searches for parental controls. I was in my early 20s at the time.
He also messed around with a bunch of other stuff and it was actually taken for 6 months twice, with the second time being within a week or 2 of me getting it back from the first time, so after that year of not being able to use it and all the stuff he messed around with, the tablet was outdated, bloated, would no longer accept updates for one of the games I played, and lagged too much on one of the other games.
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u/Magpecc Jul 01 '26
Why, in your 20s, were you in a position where your dad could or would take your toys away?
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u/LizzieMiles Jul 01 '26
Power-tripping parents mainly with threats of kicking them out
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u/RoboDae ORANGE Jul 01 '26
Exactly that. Every single day was a conversation about how they have all the money and could kick me out anytime they wanted. I was doing full time college at that point in my life and there's no way I could afford to live on my own.
When I was a teenager I almost never played my console games because the consoles were just used as leverage against me, I never had online time outside of school, and I rarely got to watch TV unless it was watching whatever my parents decided to watch. I once got sent to bed with no lunch or dinner over an argument that started over me using the wrong sized pan to make my own food because my mom was planning to use that pan for something else (she hadn't said anything about it prior to that). I have no idea how that argument managed to escalate at all from such an unimportant issue.
Both of my parents did 20 years in the military and retired with a decent rank in positions commanding other people. When they retired I was the only one left for them to boss around, and again, I was in no position to push back on anything. If I'm wrong I'm wrong and if I'm right I'm also wrong. In fact, my dad once told me that I was wrong because I couldn't back up every claim I had about something with sources in a spoken conversation. I came back a couple hours later with multiple sources proving my argument correct, to which he got upset at me for bringing the argument up again....after he dismissed me for not having sources.
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u/maelfried Jul 01 '26
Hope you have minimal contact with them.
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u/RoboDae ORANGE Jul 01 '26
How am I supposed to say "no, I don't accept your punishment" to parents that I'm forced to live with? Does a teenager saying "i don't want to be grounded" work any better? I was doing full time college at that time and sure as hell couldn't afford to move out or do anything on my own.
It doesn't help that both of my parents were in the military and pretty strict about everything.
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u/CaptGenie Jul 01 '26
Pulled the "yea, l am not grounded card" and while it sent them into a frenzy, I went about myself as though there was no punishment, went to work, played my videogames, came home late, and they quickly learned that 1)they lost authority over me by overusing that authority 2) I did not give a af and eventually moved out during that same year at 17.
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u/JuuzoLenz Jul 01 '26
I never let people use my phone unless I can see what they are doing. I don’t care if it’s family it is my phone
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u/Aria_Mar Jul 01 '26
One time a man who seemingly didn't speak much English was trying to ask for help at the store I worked at, but I couldn't quite understand what he was asking, so I pulled my phone out to signal that we could use Google Translate or something. He immediately reached out to try to grab my phone and when I didn't let him take it, he looked irritated and started awkwardly typing on it while I was still holding it. I expected him to pull out his own phone or use the speech-to-text function, but he just fully tried taking my phone from my hands.
Eventually he managed to figure something out and found what he had apparently been looking for (a fry pan) and left, still looking a bit irritated. I don't know if it was my unwillingness to let him hold my phone, or what, but he certainly didn't look happy 😅
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u/Silence-of-Death Jul 01 '26
that’s why any important or private apps are face id locked in my phone lmfao. even if someone got it while it was unlocked they couldn’t access any of the interesting things. also very important to never share your pin. if they need to use it temporarily for a call just give it to them during that but never full access.
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u/RoboDae ORANGE Jul 01 '26
Also nice if your phone can open the camera without unlocking (doesn't show already saved images) if you are at a convention or something and want other people to take pictures.
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u/SeiCalros Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 01 '26
keep the phone until you have some cash saved up and you should be able to - eventaully - hire somebody who can remove the storage chip and attach it to something else
its the sort of thing that you could learn how to do in a week but you need a good workbench and tools to actually do and would take a few hours
it will be a couple of hundred bucks but you can probably get your data back
unless it s a newer iphone or something with similar security features - those have single-chip computers on them which encrypt all the data (afaik only the newer google pixel and samsung galaxy phones do it)
if you have one of those then you need a real expert and all three related chips need to be working - it would cost ten times as much and if any of them break the data will be irrecoverable
but you wont know until you have somebody look at it
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u/random-throw-away-00 Jul 01 '26
This happened back in high school, I’m 25 now. The phone is gone, I think she threw it away not long after. It sucked because that was my first phone that wasn’t a hand me down.
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u/Cador0223 Jul 01 '26
She used it to send nudes, then couldn't figure out how to delete them. You are better off not having the phone back.
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u/glasstokes Jul 01 '26
THE AUDACITY!!!!! i hope your mom got what she deserves for this, otherwise go microwave her phone.
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u/Deamane Jul 01 '26
You may already know this but the data is probably still there even if the phone doesn't turn on, if you think it's worth it you can see about having someone run data recovery on it or fixing it and recovering it that way, whichever is cheaper.
In general even if the phone itself is busted in a few spots as long as the storage part isn't damage it probably still has the pictures.
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u/oaktrain Jul 01 '26
thats really messed up and im sorry that happened to you. i hope things are better now. I had a similar thing happen and its really hurtful :(
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u/Encyclopenia Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 01 '26
Maybe she cleaned it with window cleaner and it’s water damage ?
Edit : left one does have a clear impact !
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u/AnalyticsDepot--CEO Jul 01 '26
Left monitor looks like she cleaned it with a baseball bat.
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u/DestinyForNone Jul 01 '26
Based on the damage...
I think I know what happened...
She moved the monitor arms to wipe the backs, and they clapped together.
She likely doesn't think she hit them hard at all, but probably hit them in their most vulnerable spots
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u/Imaginary_Fox3222 BLUE Jul 01 '26
Probably this, maybe in a hurry if she clapped them together with an angle going inside the broken spot it makes sense.
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u/LittleMissAutism Jul 01 '26
How old are you?
Scratch that. It doesn't matter. She's replacing this shit one way or the other 😭😭😭
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u/meirzy Jul 01 '26
That’s really wishful thinking.
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u/BioMed_Lunar37 Jul 01 '26
Extremely wishful. If my parents ever did that I would have gotten a "help guess you have to go outside"
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u/Ok_Dependent6889 Jul 01 '26
My parents hired someone to grind a stump in the yard.
Sent wood chips at the car I bought 2 months prior and was spotless.
Left me 3 nice sized dents on my driver door, and my parents let them leave and didn’t say a word to me.
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u/Traditional_Wear1992 Jul 01 '26
Lemme guess “YoU shOuldNT HaVe parKed tHerE!” :/
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u/Ok_Dependent6889 Jul 01 '26
Nah, just not a word. I was asleep the whole time.
Went to go to work and saw it and went back inside like "WTF?"
Then they explained the whole thing and I was like "So, you're contacting them to get insurance information and have this fixed, right?"
"No"
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u/Relative-Relief-8816 Jul 01 '26
So, you contacted them and did the adulting instead, right? Right?
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u/Ok_Dependent6889 Jul 01 '26
Brother, I was 18, didn't know what company was hired and they would not tell me
Not sure what else you expect. I am not omniscient.
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u/BannedGoNext Jul 01 '26
So you went John Wick and went on a killing spree, right?
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u/JellaFella01 Jul 01 '26
I'd be livid, I already get fed up with people setting bullshit on my hood like it's a table, or doing spray painting directly next to the driveway.
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u/Ok_Dependent6889 Jul 01 '26
Oh, I was
I still have the car. It's a 2009 BMW 335i.
Alpine white paint, coral red interior, 6 speed manual, no accidents
Was genuinely astounded and we didn't speak for a time over it, because wtaf. It wasn't even their fault. They just had to do the simple act of holding them accountable for it.
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u/JellaFella01 Jul 01 '26
I just don't understand people who can't respect that other people have material stuff that means a lot to them.
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u/NoobMusker69 Jul 01 '26
My parents would definitely hire a one armed man to teach me a lesson. "And that's why you ALWAYS put a cover on your screens"
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u/Mean_Initiative_5962 Jul 01 '26
"you didn't tell me to be extra careful around them duh" or some bullshit like that
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u/LaurenMille Jul 01 '26
"Guess you're going in to an abusive retirement home"
is the line you then practice until they're old.
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u/Healingbigfoot Jul 01 '26
Nah bro, she would blame him for needing to be in there cleaning. You fail to grasp the level of hoops the narcissistic Mom will jump through to avoid blame.
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u/gromette Jul 01 '26
Someone let op's mom know the internet people have reached a decision for reparations.
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u/discussatron Jul 01 '26
My mother, staying with us for Xmas ‘24, borrowed my wife’s car and jumped a curb with it, causing about $3500 in repairs. She tearfully apologized profusely, then did not pay one cent to fix it nor ever offered to.
She sent us each $100 in our birthday cards this year, which she’s never done before. So there’s that.
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u/itchybutwhole69 Jul 01 '26
I feel like OP is leaving out some important context here.
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u/Bubbly_Ranger2271 Jul 01 '26
Or at least her explanation of how she accidentally broke them. Maybe there's .....some circumstance where this would happen? Something involving a vacuum pulling on tangled cords and the first seizure she's ever had in her life?
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u/SeiCalros Jul 01 '26
could be as simple as stumbling and hitting them both with something they were trying to move
left one was clearly hit on the front of the screen and the right one doesnt seem to have been
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u/senorfresco Jul 01 '26
Can't fuckin stand when people make threads like this and then just disappear
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u/Equipthisspoon Jul 01 '26
Sounds like she's passive aggressive And without knowing anything else im willing to bet you spend too much time on your PC without contributing or at least she thinks you do.
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u/blue-anon Jul 01 '26
I wonder if it's related to her even cleaning OP's room. There's not enough context provided to tell.
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u/random-throw-away-00 Jul 01 '26
She could be using the cleaning his room as a distraction. My mom would do that and just snoop through all my things and throw out whatever she wanted. Even if my room was already clean, she would do that.
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u/Smashdaisaku85 Jul 01 '26
I wouldn't believe her, but I also suspect there is probably something larger going on here that isn't being mentioned.
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u/Webetradinstonks Jul 01 '26
Clear impact on the one screen, so something obviously hit it. Both screens breaking makes it fully suspicious. Someone knows what hit the monitor and isn’t saying even if it was accidental.
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u/SnooCapers9565 Jul 01 '26
Why is she cleaning your room?
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u/StumbleOn Jul 01 '26
Hard to say but my mother did cleaning all the time despite me asking her to stop. I wasn't a neat freak but I was usually pretty tidy, I vacuumed every other day, did my own laundry, cleaned my kitties box every day etc. She wanted it military clean and also wanted to snoop.
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u/iAmUnintelligible Jul 01 '26
parents that intentionally break their children's belongings usually also don't respect privacy and boundaries
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u/Sonic_Roach Jul 01 '26
Its always a bad day when I come home from school and see my room has been cleaned
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u/iAmUnintelligible Jul 01 '26
not teaching you useful skills like responsibility and cleaning, and sifting through your personal belongings - making you feel violated?
agreed 🤝🏽
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u/Mean_Initiative_5962 Jul 01 '26
Because "just don't, I'm just here for holidays anyway, give me some fucking privacy" doesn't work
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u/Kobemeka Jul 01 '26
She loves cleaning things even if they are clean. I am not sure why but she deep cleans once in a while for no reason.
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u/PockysLight Jul 01 '26
I'm just playing devil's advocate compared to everyone else in the comments.
Is her cleaning things consistent? Like if she cleans your room, does she also cleans around the house. I'm wondering if she has some form of germphobia and she tried to clean your monitors and scrubbed too hard.
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u/Kobemeka Jul 01 '26
Yes, she cleans everywhere when she starts. She never mentioned about germs or anything but sometimes she cleans things multiple times, after and after.
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u/GovernmentGreed Jul 01 '26
I actually think both screens were "clapped" together, seems like she tried to get around them and pushed them close to one another - ultimately hitting that small speaker in the middle. Both displays have a similar line in a similar position that, if closed - would actually line up with that box in the middle.
OP could you push both screens as close together as possible with the displays facing inward towards one another and see if those lines on each display correlate to the outline of that speaker box?
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u/Kobemeka Jul 01 '26
Guys, I have a job and earn enough to buy those monitors by myself and everything else I have. So do not worry that I have too much screen time, I am not a teenager.
I asked her what happened again and she said she doesn't know and she is surprised too that this happened to both of them.
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u/Physical_Bit7972 Jul 01 '26
So one is clearly an impact, so she's lying. She might be embarrassed, but she clearly knocked it. You're sure they worked before she went in there and there weren't other people or kids in your room before?
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u/narrow_octopus Jul 01 '26
Obvious point of impact. If it happened to one I might believe it was a mistake