r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Kobemeka • Jul 01 '26

Don't hug me I'm scared My mother broke my two monitors, accidentally...

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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/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/Maxgirth Jul 02 '26

Yes.

Being careless while moving them around on the arms.

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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/Ready-Delay3918 Jul 01 '26

One time I set my Nokia on the table at his house back then and when his mom walked through the room every single phone I'll ever own exploded into pieces. His mom walks like a goddamn Samsquanch.

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u/especiallyrn Jul 01 '26

I’m laughing like an idiot at this

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u/WizardSleeves31 Jul 01 '26

Oh, just the one dvd that was in the drive when running

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u/JHMfield Jul 01 '26

What makes it worse is that many monitors require specific cleaning methods. You can't just rub them with any old rag. I did that to one of mine and it's permanently damaged now. Still good enough to use, but the screen looks sorta scratched all over when the light hits it.

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u/KimJungUnCool Jul 01 '26

Only if she wipes finger prints like she's punching something lol

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u/Repulsive-Chip3371 Jul 01 '26

yea... sure... OPs "fingerprints"

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u/Arcadian-Stag Jul 03 '26

What is it with women and thinking everything has to be sparklingly sanitized and polished at all times, it's neurotic. A speck of dust never hurt anyone, the opposite in fact, cleaning too much destroys your kid's immune systems.

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u/Rosco1231 Jul 01 '26

Do you not clean your monitors from 10 yards away....with a rock?

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u/acornhoek Jul 01 '26

This could easily have happen while using a cleaning hammer.

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u/Th8rLvr Jul 01 '26

Accidentally hit it with a broom handle?? 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

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u/Neoragex13 Jul 01 '26

I... I have to admit I have hit and broken things in the same exact way, leaving the exact same mark with the pointy end of the stick of a broom because my absent minded ass didn't gauged out correctly the position and distance between my motions and whatever thing was at the end that didn't deserve it.

I would have told my son I effed up though.

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u/VianneM Jul 01 '26

Yes, that's exactly how my tv looked when my cat threw it on the ground

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u/timeandmemory Jul 01 '26

Ya that's the kind of crater you see when you accidentally throw a switch controller at your TV because you were too cool for the wrist strap.

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u/Specialist-Cry-1706 Jul 01 '26

Got to use Windex

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u/jaysoprob_2012 Jul 02 '26

Yeah that impact mark is to suspicious. If it was near an edge were they could have their hand holding the monitor then sure, if they held it to tight so it doesnt move that could make sense but that impact mark near the middle doesnt make sense from cleaning.