ok this tale involves a 15 year old who is soon to become 16 (girl), sonot only do i need and expert opinion but from a parents point of view if at all possible. im the stepdad and normally i dont get involved with certain things that happen because they normally involve my wife or my stepdaughters dad.
this is a school issued laptop, a thinkpad, cost around 2k. she comes home after school today and the sob story starts " mom, i dont know what happened, i opened the laptop and the screen was cracked, it was fine the period before, we were taking a quiz and i put it on the desk behind me and when i opened it again it was cracked"
now, wife and i are both thinking/calling bullshit BUT stepdaughter swears up and down that, that is what happened. she tends to lie, as with any dumb kid, they think that no one will know and they can get away with it (i know for fact cause i have a 15yr old boy and 16yr old girl that do the same dumbshit and i call them a whoooole lot worse although we have an understanding that they never abide by).
so my question to the community and the experts, are some laptops so cheap that with the slightest touch the screen cracks?
with this one, everything is left to question because although she was TOLD to NOT leave the personal laptop by her bedside like her mother does, she did it anyway; stepped on it, cracked the screen and came cryin like a puppy dog, i like it though cause my wife is not a "coddler", still a couple of things that i dont agree with but by far not a coddler so its not so far fetched that the school laptop receives the same treatment at some point in time
first off we pretty much know that she either dropped it or stepped on it somehow, but in the off chance that she may be right (and mind you i think it is a veery off chance)i just want to know how likely that it could be that the possibility of a fly taking a shit on a laptop screen can crack it.
i call bullshit cause years ago i used to build pc's for fun, before it was heard of or the parts were easy to get, a barebones kit would normally get me giddy like school girl, so i know my way around a computer, not to keen on the programming end of things but i can build em with the best of em, so know that its just not that easy to break this thing BUT i could be wrong since i havent been on the pc scene in a while
these days i just let dell do all the work, not big on use anyway. keep some pics, vids, d/l the occasional torrent or two, and mess around on ic.
so gang, what could it be that is afowl about this quandary?
this is a school issued laptop, a thinkpad, cost around 2k. she comes home after school today and the sob story starts " mom, i dont know what happened, i opened the laptop and the screen was cracked, it was fine the period before, we were taking a quiz and i put it on the desk behind me and when i opened it again it was cracked"
now, wife and i are both thinking/calling bullshit BUT stepdaughter swears up and down that, that is what happened. she tends to lie, as with any dumb kid, they think that no one will know and they can get away with it (i know for fact cause i have a 15yr old boy and 16yr old girl that do the same dumbshit and i call them a whoooole lot worse although we have an understanding that they never abide by).
so my question to the community and the experts, are some laptops so cheap that with the slightest touch the screen cracks?
with this one, everything is left to question because although she was TOLD to NOT leave the personal laptop by her bedside like her mother does, she did it anyway; stepped on it, cracked the screen and came cryin like a puppy dog, i like it though cause my wife is not a "coddler", still a couple of things that i dont agree with but by far not a coddler so its not so far fetched that the school laptop receives the same treatment at some point in time
first off we pretty much know that she either dropped it or stepped on it somehow, but in the off chance that she may be right (and mind you i think it is a veery off chance)i just want to know how likely that it could be that the possibility of a fly taking a shit on a laptop screen can crack it.
i call bullshit cause years ago i used to build pc's for fun, before it was heard of or the parts were easy to get, a barebones kit would normally get me giddy like school girl, so i know my way around a computer, not to keen on the programming end of things but i can build em with the best of em, so know that its just not that easy to break this thing BUT i could be wrong since i havent been on the pc scene in a while
these days i just let dell do all the work, not big on use anyway. keep some pics, vids, d/l the occasional torrent or two, and mess around on ic.
so gang, what could it be that is afowl about this quandary?
Last edited: