Anyone else ever get satisfaction out of smashing electronics that don't work?

[Mesa]

Maybe this belongs in Eli's RAGE thread, but I know that I have a habit of dealing with a POS electronic for a short while, give it the benefit of doubt, try and try again to work with it, but once I'm frustrated past my boiling point, I smash the piece of ____ in a variety of methods.


I've been having an ongoing issue with my router AND my internet connection. Think the problem is on both ends. I have two routers that I swap in order to diagnose the problem and I noticed that with a certain one, it causes the internet to come in and out, which is probably the most frustrating experience I've dealt with. So tonight, after having dealt with it for over a year, I calmly unplugged it, and smashed that ____er against my desk. Then I stomped it with my bare heel a few times.

I've also taken a hammer to a piece of ____ cell phone that sucked so bad, and was also so old that donating it wasn't an option. NOTE: I calmly removed the SIM card before smashing it.

and I've thrown a DVD player that just kept skipping and eating/scratching DVD's on the floor in my garage and smashed it in little pieces.


It's not like I go around breaking stuff in my home at random, I do take care of my stuff, but with electronics, after I finally realize and admit that it truly is a piece of crap not worthy of existing, I do get some sort of sick satisfaction out of smashing the crap out of it after having causing me months/years of frustration.



Is this just me? Should I seek help?

 

[Mesa]

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[Jen]

YES!!! When my last POS cell phone finally died I took great pleasure taking a hammer to it and smashing it to pieces. It was one of those first generation touch screen ones that never worked. I had to use the Qwerty keyboard to dial. That thing was beyond frustrating. Smashing it sure felt good.

 

[Cloud]

I've used two of my broken down digital cameras for target practice.

 

[SixMillionDollarMan Guy]

YES!!! When my last POS cell phone finally died I took great pleasure taking a hammer to it and smashing it to pieces. It was one of those first generation touch screen ones that never worked. I had to use the Qwerty keyboard to dial. That thing was beyond frustrating. Smashing it sure felt good.

Remind me never to frustrate you.

 

[Voorhees27]

I once went to town on 2 super nintendo controllers but that was like 20 years ago.

 

[Jen]

Remind me never to frustrate you.

I only Hulk-smash electronics...not people.

 

[Deeznutz6]

I one smashed a PS3 controller to pieces, but that was because of the game I was playing. It was an expensive outburst

 

[Amanaman]

What PS3 game was that? I try avoiding games with cheap difficulty. I am also meticulous with taking care of my stuff, but I have no tolerance for shoddy electronics. Technology is meant to serve us not the other way around.

 

[hairlesswookiee]

I one smashed a PS3 controller to pieces, but that was because of the game I was playing. It was an expensive outburst

I've done this before. Just recently too....surprised my controller still works.

 

[quadcent]

i once took out my frustration on a VCR that was acting up. it was kinda funny how it worked out, after taking it and swinging it around by it cord a number of times smashing it against a power pole (finally the cord broke) i proceeded to smash the hell out of it with a 10lb. sledge hammer.

MAN did that feel good. after i was done with it, i grabbed a beer and sat on the lawn beside it while my parents came over for a visit they were like WTF.

as it turned out, it appeared our young daughter at the time inserted a bunch of loose change into the cassette slot so the movie wouldn't go down into the machine and play.

 

[Bodie The Cursed]

My Feedback: Sounds like you have a combination of self control and pent up sexual frustration issues..

 

[quadcent]

My Feedback: Sounds like you have a combination of self control and pent up sexual frustration issues..

why yes as a matter of fact i do have anger issues, but definately have not problems with the latter

 

[Voorhees27]

why yes as a matter of fact i do have anger issues, but definately have not problems with the latter

It comes with being an Albertan

 

[quadcent]

It comes with being an Albertan

 

[Skiman]

My Feedback: Sounds like you have a combination of self control and pent up sexual frustration issues..

 

[Skiman]

 

[Mesa]

i once took out my frustration on a VCR that was acting up. it was kinda funny how it worked out, after taking it and swinging it around by it cord a number of times smashing it against a power pole (finally the cord broke) i proceeded to smash the hell out of it with a 10lb. sledge hammer.

MAN did that feel good. after i was done with it, i grabbed a beer and sat on the lawn beside it while my parents came over for a visit they were like WTF.

This is what I'm talking about, it feels GOOD, right, like you showed that POS who's the boss. As long as it is handled in a controlled environment, where no kids or preferably anyone are going to witness, and no one is going to get hurt, except maybe a bloody knuckle, I say go for it. That VCR wasn't going to be any good to anyone else, it served it.

Growing up, I used to not be able to hold back and harness my anger, which usually resulted in holes punched through the drywall, but now I can at least wait long enough to let it out without causing collateral damage.

 

[jinxx]

I once took out my frustration in an aisle at a local Canadian Tire. What made me drove to it? I had just lost my wallet earlier while coming in from the parking lot. It turned out that my own mother found it but failed to inform me before I went batshat crazy!

 

[Skiman]

U mean your purse?