Have you ever given a computer to someone else and then got it back? Shocked by the results?

[rah]

Today's computers tend to work fairly well and remain stable even when they're left unattended.

Yes my fathers machine does remain pretty stable when he leaves it unattended. It's when it's attended is when there is a problem.

[The Mad Monk]

This is your last chance puter!!

Well no son, I always keep my nail gun in the den

[Hauldren Collider]

Whenever I visit my grandparents or extended family my mom volunteers me to fix every computer in the vicinity. It is actually something I am extremely proficient at but it's not really something I wanna do for what feels like all the octogenarians in St. Louis. Lately I've been refusing. It's extremely aggravating.

[loinburger]

My dad is trying to turn an old router into a dd-wrt repeater bridge - I told him to try following a FAQ (which is all I did the last time I did this), and failing that I'd help him out when I came up to their place after work. He immediately tried mucking around with the router's settings without reading a FAQ, which meant that he then had to do a hard reset do undo the damage, after which he said that he couldn't log in to the router using the default username/password or any of the listed alternatives ([blank]/admin, admin/admin, root/admin, etc).

I went to my parents' place for dinner and took a look at what he was doing. He'd unplugged the router after the hard reset and never plugged it back in.

[Alexander's Horse]

DIY

[Main_Brain]

I gave my old laptop to my parents, and my dad accidentally shot the screen with a nailgun (half of the screen was still usable, the other half was toast)

subtle