Have you ever broken something that was very expensive or irreplaceable?

I have not.

I did as a toddler. I haven’t made it right yet.

Someone’s heart.

So I let them break mine to even everything up.

Still cheaper than trashing that hotel room in Miami.

Close but no cigar. When I was maybe 19, my girlfriends mother said she would kill me if I didn’t stop leaning back in her antique chair I was always sitting In. Advice taken.

When I worked for ATT in the late 80’s, I dropped a 50-pound replacement hard drive.

I didn’t see any external damage, but if there was any damage to the internal components, those babies costed about $30K to replace.

When I was in 3rd grade, 1967 or so, there was a black kid in my class. We were friends. One day he made me mad and I hissed “Nigger!” at him. I will never for the shocked look on his face or the pain in his eyes.
I went home and asked Mom what it meant.
I felt horrible and tried being a lot nicer to him for a while.

@Dutchess_III I am so sorry that happened. I could only hope that he could forgive you, being so young and not even knowing what it meant. Our culture can be terrible especially for young minds :(

Especially in those years, in the 60s.

Yes the entire mainframe computer system for an aerospace company, I crashed it. Didn’t know that I broke it, shutdown all manufacturing processes on mainframe. I get a call at my desk about 5 minutes after the system crashed, “Bill this is Bob at Apollo Center, did you try to do this . . . DON“T ever do that again!” Took them three hours to get it up and running. My question sent it into a loop the computer couldn’t get an answer.

@Tropical_Willie

“My question sent it into a loop the computer couldn’t get an answer.”

How about posting that question as an OP? ;)

I second that! Post the question!

It was was a bill of material question that was fourteen levels from deliverable part to purchased raw material , the register in the mainframe only had TWELVE levels, so when it got to 12 it went out into LA-LA land.

Ahahahaha!!
I cruashed a main frame pac once at Boeing in the late 70s.

Back in March of this year, I purposely broke the connection from Russia to my Wealth Management/Private Banking Firms SWIFT network. This disabled Russia from doing any financial transactions or requests through my firm.
It felt so good and empowering.

^ Sometime I think the Russians got a hold of my laptop, I’ve had/have some crazy stuff happen. I’m not good at fixing computer stuff :(

@RayaHope that is certainly possible.

@Forever_Free Oh say it ain’t so! I’m so messed up now. s#it

@RayaHope the weekend has started for Russians. They are heavily drinking at the moment. Now is your time to work on the computer uninterrupted.

^^^ LOL!!

^^ Wait are you pulling my leg @Forever_Free ? Okay funny funny :}

@RayaHope Dead serious.

She’s pulling your leg @RayaHope. :)

^^You guys are messing my head up now. I’m confused :(

Ok. She’s serious @RayaHope.

I just remembered something that I posted on another thread. I did mess up something once that was very expensive, to have repaired any way. I messed up the front axel on my dad’s Mustang Mach One car racing another asshole one night. He was not a happy camper, and made me drive the VW to school there after. Prior to that he had always been cool about letting me use his car. Any time I asked him to. When I ill-advisedly protested, he told me in his inicable Army guy way, “Act like a numb nut you can drive a numb nut car. You should have thought about that son!” But he was right.

@Dutchess_III (shaking my fist at you!) grrrrrrr la la la ignoring you now… la la

Lol! Sry @Rayahope!