Computers

I'm going to say it right now, having a broken computer is almost like having a sick pet these days. <br><br> In 2005, my mom bought a computer entirely on her own, my stepdad did not contribute a dime to this computer. However, 8 years later, it became really, really, slow and bogged down. Eventually, my mom and I gave up on this computer and just began doing everything we needed to on my laptop, or the iPad or even our phones. My stepdad was the only one really using it, and he always complained about how slow it was because he doesn't have any paitence. <br><br>But last week, while my mom was at work and I was away, I guess the computer had an ultimate mental breakdown and just froze up. My stepdad instantly unplugged my mother's computer, and hauled it into a shop without even asking her. The guy looked at it for free, and he told him the same thing that my mom or I could've told him, it was bogged down. The repair guy said he could fix it for 150 dollars, so my stepdad wanted to pay for that half and half with my mom. Meanwhile, my mom could get a brand new computer for 400 dollars that would last us another ten years, or we could pay 150 for roughly two more years out of this computer. But, he thought that was "too expensive".<br><br>So, the guy "fixed" it by putting everything on an external hardrive and then wiping the computer clean. So then, since my stepdad seems to feel it is his computer, when the guy asked what programs/things he should reinstall in the computer, my stepdad went and listed everything that he wanted, nothing of my mom's. Even if she didn't use it anymore, she had pictures, our joint iTunes account, all things that are on the external hardrive that we have to reinstall. It just... irks me that my stepdad treats the computer like it's his.