is this wrong?

[MRT144]

well im trying to find a cunning way of getting a brand new computer with no expense to myself. the current problem is i dont have enough money to do so, and i wont by the time i start school up again even if i work 20 hours a week(the max that they allow me usually).

so i was planning on spending all my money on a road trip and then delibritly destroying both my computers. then pleading with my dad that i cant go to college without a brand spanking new computer.

im already paying my own way for a good share of college, and will in the end wind up paying for more than he is, so i think it be nice on his part to give me a new computer...

anyway, am i just acting like a spoiled little child for plotting this, or am i really just playing the system well?

[General Ludd]

Why spend all your money on a road trip?



Either way, you better hope it doesn't back fire and you end up with no computer at all.

[Hurricane]

Why not just sell your old computers and inform the insurance company that you accidentaly dropped them from your balcony or something and cash in on them a second time?

[rah]

I vote spoiled little child. Be a man, make a deal. Your father deserves better.

[TheStinger]

Sell your body

[MRT144]

my dad doesnt make deals anymore because he thinks im an adult and i pay for everything i want. except i cant afford large expenditures like this, or when my car broke down two times. in fact if my mom hadnt bailed me out on my car i would have owed more than 2200 dollars on 2000 dollar car i paid for with my own money.

ill try going the deal route but i doubt that he will have any of it unless there is an obvious need for a new one.

[boann]

this is just wrong in so many ways
and you know it.

grow up , don't use and manipulate the people who
care about you the most . you're lucky to have someone
able to help you with college expenses.
be grateful

[rah]

What are your current two computers?

[MRT144]

i dont feel any more lucky than my friends who had their parents buy them cars, pay for their entire college, and buy them new computers before they left for college.

im more grateful towards my mom who works at stanford who is paying for 95% of my actual tuition, makes half the money my dad makes, and still finds it in her heart to financially put her neck out for me when i dont ask her to.

[Sava]

nice Rah... I couldn't have said it better myself. Get a damn job and be a man. I got a job when I was 14 in order to pay for my own first computer. The last thing you want to be is accountable to your parents anyways. And you're in college? Sheesh

[MRT144]

The first is a pentium II 300 MHZ 64mbs Ram, 8 gig drive. the second is a pentium III 1 ghz 512 MBs pc133 Ram, 40 gig drive and 80 gig drive(which i plan on harvesting for a new computer)

sava, i have a job. i cant find another one because of my current job and conflicting hours. Ive had a job to buy most everything ive wanted including my car and my last computer. im not in college yet, i will be in a few months...

[Skanky Burns]

pentium III 1 ghz 512 MBs pc133 Ram

Thats fairly decent. If you can't get by on that, my vote goes to spoiled little child.

[Paul Hanson]

What's wrong with the computers you already have? I've got a P166 desktop and a 486 laptop, and I'm fine with them. I really don't think you need a brand new computer.

[MRT144]

im going to school for music production and will be using my computer a lot for it. my 1ghz is already struggling with my current music setup which isnt even being used to half the maximum of what i would use it for.

[General Ludd]

Ha! yeah right, you just want to play computer games.