Today, I got a laptop for my birthday. I was thrilled until I realized that my mom had given away my old one without asking. 6 years of games, music, and pictures down the drain. FML
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Today, my parents got me a new computer for my birthday. They also took the liberty of throwing out my old computer, with 8 years of photos, videos, music, documents, emails, and bookmarks on it. But that's okay, I had a backup. They threw that out too. FML
Today, I finally finished typing up a story I had been working on for about 7 months, saved it on my computer and left to hang with friends. Came home later to find my dad had sold my laptop in order to pay his phone bill. My hard work is now gone. FML
Today, it's my birthday. After a day out partying, I came home to find all my stuff smashed in the yard, even my 42" plasma TV. After asking my girlfriend what her problem was, she said a "slut" left a message on the machine stating how fun last night was. It turned out to be my mom. FML
Today, I received my new laptop in the mail and put it on the kitchen counter, where my family charges all our electronics. My mom then decided to make soup and spilt chicken broth all over my new laptop before I even got the chance to turn it on. FML
Today, using the money my mom gave me for my birthday, I bought a new laptop for school. When I went online to register for classes, I found that all the online classes were full and remaining classes didn't qualify for my major. FML
Today, I deleted a load of junk that was messing up my mother's computer. I don't know how I'm going to tell her I accidentally wiped out all of her wedding photos. FML
Today, my mom borrowed my computer without my permission and downloaded a virus. I came home to a blue screen of death. She refuses to admit fault and pay for a new computer. FML
Today, I took the motherboard out of my computer so I could put more RAM and a new video card in. While I was in the bathroom my mom threw it all out because it 'looked like garbage'. FML
Today, I took my new laptop into my house from my car, thinking it would be a too much of a target for kids grabbing it. I came home tonight to find my door kicked in, my laptop gone and my TV ripped from the wall. FML
Today, I got a new laptop for Christmas. The picture on the box showed a woman balancing it on one finger to show how light it was, so I tried it myself. I dropped my laptop, breaking the hard drive and putting a massive crack down the screen. FML
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Top comments
boating_guy 33
Yikes. Ask for it back so you can get all the old data from it! I'm sure any reasonable person would oblige
brendejafulable 41
She probably had sold it to buy you this one.
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Comments (76)
Reasonable_one 12
It is a good thing you had everything you wanted to keep backed-up. You never know when your computer will crash, get dropped, stolen or given away by a family member.
Ipsum629 13
if you had steam games toy won't have to rebuy them.
Neilious 11
Bummer. Parents can be so dumb.
krissayymarie 12
Always back up your stuff! But what a b***h for not asking you first!
thes7274473 19
Some people are just bad at surprises
p36288 17
Remember save a copy of any data another place, like certain cloud drive, and important data at least two places.
RyanBee 14
Don't forget all the porno saved in that! That sucks OP
lRain 6
I don't mean to sound heartless but who goes through 6 years without backing up stuff on a hard drive. Sorry OP but it would be a good investment to buy a 1 terabyte HD. I feel memories don't really have a price.
CandyApple88 13
Having had many things thrown out by my mother, I'm feeling the pain and some anger. If you can't get your old laptop back (to get your data) I'd return the favour and give away something of your mother's that she values.
ByeTech 10
Hi guys! OP here. For everybody suggesting I find out who my mom gave the computer to - I'm afraid it's not possible because she actually threw it away. I totally should have had a back up, I admit, but I didn't know I was getting a laptop for my birthday. Sigh. At least my new laptop is pink. Thanks for the support!
kotake 7
This is actually really bad. If someone gets a hold of it, they can get a lot of personal information. Not only is that six years of your life they can recreate, if you used a credit card even once there's a chance they can get that too (granted those would be some pretty damn good junkyard techies). TL;DR: Just for future note, either destroy all old hard drives you're done with (hammer is old fashioned and does its job well) or just save that crap somewhere in a box in your garage/basement. Don't throw away hard drives, that's soooooooo much information. And you have literally no idea where it goes.
sicksadworld1317 30
Check the dumpster asap, OP! You may only have a slim chance of recovering your computer, but it's at least worth a try.