WTF my dad is acting like a big baby

[Number1]

Originally posted by: Sawyer
lol no offense, I expected to be flamed for the blog post! ATOT is rough!

You're admitting this is a troll thread?

 

[Red Squirrel]

VPN is your friend.

Seriously, when I move out, I'm leaving a crappy server at my parent's house with openvpn on it. My dad will probably be calling me like at least once a week for stupid little things like "why is there a window open?"

And yeah I hate housecalls. At least if they bring the tower to me I can do other stuff while it scans, formats, reinstalls, reimages etc. Sucks when it's for family though as you tend to be stuck going the extra mile, AND without getting paid for it.

 

[Kelemvor]

Never fix PCs for family... Unless they're paying you.

 

[JKing106]

No one really knows what this relationship is like except the OP and his dad. It sounds like my dad, who I'm pretty sure has NPD, and thinks the world revolves around him. Maybe I'm wrong, I hope so. Because my dad is a pain in the fucking ass, with his drama queen bullshit, and petty grudge holding.

 

[dbk]

Go over with a 6 pack.. fix his shit and just hang out with your old man...

 

[Perknose]

Originally posted by: Sawyer
Ok I am an ass, so what?

You are an ungrateful ass, and a whiny one to boot. You seem to lack a certain amount of class and grace, which are not attributes semi-anonymous geeks on a messageboard can inculcate in you.

The light bulb either goes on in your head and your heart or it doesn't.

 

[Damn Dirty Ape]

don't be a dick.

 

[mykol1010]

He probably has a poor relationship with his dad, in which case the behavior is perfectly fine!

 

[AlienCraft]

Originally posted by: Sawyer
I would but last week he promised he was going to pickup something for me I was going to buy in another town that he happened to be going to but he didn't and didn't let me know, thus causing me to miss out on the sale. Plus so what he is my dad, he is not doing anything right now and I am offering to fix his pc free of charge

This excuse expired when you were 12. Read all your pathetic excuses and rationalizations and you suck at hints. All hewanted was some of your scintillating company and you dissed him on that. IF his house is so fucked up, how about the old "Can't fix it here, gota run it on my network at home, blah blah blah"? You really suck.

ATOT can only hope your son screws you out of a visit in the unforeseen future, assuming of course you ever have sex.Did I say you suck? I forget, being so old and shit....

 

[cKGunslinger]

Originally posted by: ShadowOfMyself
Shouldnt have posted this thread here - in ATOT parents are always right, and if you do something other than worshipping them, youre an idiot

Nevermind that your dad was once a normal guy just like you, and would probably have acted the same way, but no, just because he decided to have a kid, suddenly youre an ungrateful brat who deserves to burn in the lowest pits of hell

Well done ATOT

I love how you always make it sound like having kids is this huge sacrifice from some greek mythology, give me a fucking break... Arent kids the most important thing in your life?
You act like theres no reward whatsoever in doing what parents do, in which case, why have kids in the first place? Not to mention we dont even have a choice in being born, someone else decided it for us

So youre telling me that if Joe decides to buy me this expensive watch which I had no part in, I should do every favor he asks in return, even when I had nothing to do with it?

Bullshit, cut the parents are holy crap already, theyre people like everyone else and theyre not always right

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

 

[JulesMaximus]

You're a worthless puke of a son. Seriously, this is why abortion should be legal.

ATOT justice is swift...and just.

 

[skyking]

Since everyone else has climbed up your ass already, I'll just make a quick suggestion.
Get everything back in order and get a second drive from the FS/FT forum for $15.
Image it, and leave it installed in a second bay. Show your dad how to move two cables. Next time it gets hosed up, he can go on the backup drive and you can come back and re-image before he fvcks it up again.
Oh and I'm with you on the cigarette smoke. My mom smoked all her life and she knew it made my wife ill. She'd lay off or smoke out of the room for us when we visited. It still stank but it was better.

 

[waffleironhead]

He just wants you to visit him, the computer problem is just the excuse to invite you over.

 

[Regs]

mean

 

[fleabag]

Sawyer, if there is something you should know.....it's that on internet forums, most posters believe that you should wait on your parents hand and foot, like as if you need to beg for forgiveness. If this is a ONE time problem or an occasional problem (once a year? Two, three years?) then just go over there and fix it. But if he's the kind of person who is constantly hassling you about his 'puter being broke again, then yeah, make him drop it off because he obviously doesn't value your time and if he's going to get anything free, he's going to have to put SOME work into it unlike now where all he has to do is pickup the phone and you're there fixing his computer...


As for the idiots who like to bring up, "but they changed your diapers! They did this and that for you when you were a baby", yes, like I asked you to change my diapers and be alive, both decisions you as parents made before I existed.. I like how basic care of a baby is being construed as going "above and beyond", like as if they weren't obligated to do any of that crap.
/end rant

 

[SAWYER]

My dad is constantly wanting me to do stuff for him, it is almost like our roles are reversed, I am honestly tired of it. He knows how to work on cars/mowers etc yet I havn't ever been able to get him to help me, he is simply too lazy.

 

[fleabag]

Originally posted by: skyking
Since everyone else has climbed up your ass already, I'll just make a quick suggestion.
Get everything back in order and get a second drive from the FS/FT forum for $15.
Image it, and leave it installed in a second bay. Show your dad how to move two cables. Next time it gets hosed up, he can go on the backup drive and you can come back and re-image before he fvcks it up again.
Oh and I'm with you on the cigarette smoke. My mom smoked all her life and she knew it made my wife ill. She'd lay off or smoke out of the room for us when we visited. It still stank but it was better.

You people and your suggestions like "get a copy of Norton Ghost, use Acronis," or the best suggestion I've heard yet which I quoted above! Do you really think these people are capable of doing anything themselves? If his Dad can't take the time to disconnect his computer which is COLOR CODED and has ports that are so simple to attach, that when you see newbies attempt to plug things in, all you can see are horrible flashbacks to that scene in Idiocracy where the inmates are doing their IQ test, how can you expect to teach these people to learn and REMEMBER how to use software or even go as far as opening up the computer!!! It seems simple to you and I, but to these people, it's not, and it's because it's extremely intimidating and they've been told over and over that only "smart or trained people" are to work on it. This is why you see old pop in his drive way changing his oil or Spark Plugs but he won't dare touch his VCR, DVD, or CD player when it won't eject their Video Tape, or Discs..

 

[skyking]

Originally posted by: fleabag

Originally posted by: skyking
Since everyone else has climbed up your ass already, I'll just make a quick suggestion.
Get everything back in order and get a second drive from the FS/FT forum for $15.
Image it, and leave it installed in a second bay. Show your dad how to move two cables. Next time it gets hosed up, he can go on the backup drive and you can come back and re-image before he fvcks it up again.
Oh and I'm with you on the cigarette smoke. My mom smoked all her life and she knew it made my wife ill. She'd lay off or smoke out of the room for us when we visited. It still stank but it was better.

You people and your suggestions like "get a copy of Norton Ghost, use Acronis," or the best suggestion I've heard yet which I quoted above! Do you really think these people are capable of doing anything themselves? If his Dad can't take the time to disconnect his computer which is COLOR CODED and has ports that are so simple to attach, that when you see newbies attempt to plug things in, all you can see are horrible flashbacks to that scene in Idiocracy where the inmates are doing their IQ test, how can you expect to teach these people to learn and REMEMBER how to use software or even go as far as opening up the computer!!! It seems simple to you and I, but to these people, it's not, and it's because it's extremely intimidating and they've been told over and over that only "smart or trained people" are to work on it. This is why you see old pop in his drive way changing his oil or Spark Plugs but he won't dare touch his VCR, DVD, or CD player when it won't eject their Video Tape, or Discs..

I talk people through all sorts of intimidating "technical computer stuff", it would be a piece of cake to talk someone through a drive cable swap. It is not like using regedit

 

[fleabag]

Originally posted by: skyking

Originally posted by: fleabag

Originally posted by: skyking
Since everyone else has climbed up your ass already, I'll just make a quick suggestion.
Get everything back in order and get a second drive from the FS/FT forum for $15.
Image it, and leave it installed in a second bay. Show your dad how to move two cables. Next time it gets hosed up, he can go on the backup drive and you can come back and re-image before he fvcks it up again.
Oh and I'm with you on the cigarette smoke. My mom smoked all her life and she knew it made my wife ill. She'd lay off or smoke out of the room for us when we visited. It still stank but it was better.

You people and your suggestions like "get a copy of Norton Ghost, use Acronis," or the best suggestion I've heard yet which I quoted above! Do you really think these people are capable of doing anything themselves? If his Dad can't take the time to disconnect his computer which is COLOR CODED and has ports that are so simple to attach, that when you see newbies attempt to plug things in, all you can see are horrible flashbacks to that scene in Idiocracy where the inmates are doing their IQ test, how can you expect to teach these people to learn and REMEMBER how to use software or even go as far as opening up the computer!!! It seems simple to you and I, but to these people, it's not, and it's because it's extremely intimidating and they've been told over and over that only "smart or trained people" are to work on it. This is why you see old pop in his drive way changing his oil or Spark Plugs but he won't dare touch his VCR, DVD, or CD player when it won't eject their Video Tape, or Discs..

I talk people through all sorts of intimidating "technical computer stuff", it would be a piece of cake to talk someone through a drive cable swap. It is not like using regedit

Yeah and then have you ever had them actually remember the procedure for a reasonable amount of time? Or did you not care/know because you never had to deal with them again and or their problem?

 

[skyking]

Nah, they just call me and we, do it again! WoooHoooo!

 

[BurnItDwn]

It's always easier to fix PCs at your own place.
When my parents screw up their machines, I usually pick them up and work at them at home, that way, if I need to look something up, burn a CD with drivers or whatever, or swap out any hardware, I have all the tools and equipment I need to get the job done.

 

[theprodigalrebel]

OPWTFRAGE

:|

 

[GiggleGirl]

Originally posted by: amdhunter
It's your dad. Drive to his house.

no, thats retarded. if you are asking someone to do something for you (regardless as to what it is) then you go to them. you know they arent going to charge you anything for their service, so the least you can do is go to them to get whatever it is taken care of.


way different example but: my daughters father asked me to have our daughter on one of his nights. perfectly fine with me, no problem, shes my daughter. when i told him to come on by to drop her off, he got pissed... im thinking, YOU are asking ME for a favor... YOU are the one that wants this... so you can freakin do the leg work. end of story

 

[GiggleGirl]

Originally posted by: Mo0o

Originally posted by: Sawyer
lol ok whatever, I am willing to fix it for free but he is obviously too lazy to bring it to me. I don't like going to his house anyway, he and my brother smoke and their keyboard is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen

LOL you're such a little bitch.

Since when did family charge each other for small favors like fixing a computer? It's way more convenient for you to just drive over and fix it than for him to unplug everything, bring it over, then go back and try to plug everything back in.

This is just bizarre. If my mom asked me to clean the gutters or fix her computer, the first thing going through my mind would not be "that bitch is calling me just so she can have it done for free"

you have no idea how elitist and fickle some families/family members are. its pretty sad

 

[GiggleGirl]

Originally posted by: dquan97
Sounds like there are a lot of ppl here who don't have a good relationship w/ their dads

so what? a ton of people have shitty relationships with their parents. bottom line

growing up, my dad was a friggin alcoholic. we didnt even HAVE a relationship. as i got older and just learned to accept him for whatever it is he was, i have been able to just let go of all the shit i dont like about it. in the most recent years, my dad has done quite a bit for me (allowing me to live with him rent-free for about 6 or so months)... and most of you would say (family shouldnt charge you rent if youre having a hard time getting on your feet, blah blah blah) but you dont know my father and nothing is free to him.

so if he wanted me to fix something, something portable, id probably have him come to me, unless i was in the area.

i love my dad, but im not going to go out of my way for him... he never did for me