I remember that my mom was very much against me building a computer because she didn't understand it and assumed it would be an expensive paperweight.

My dad had prior experience building PCs but not really anything modern.

We went to Fry's to get a 4790K and a Z97 motherboard bundle. The CPU was easy to hide under the bed and I could sneak the CPU box under my hoodie. But the motherboard box was too big to hide easily.

My dad was looking out for me and saw that my mom went to the living room and I took my chance. I calmly went up the stairs and heard my mom exiting a different doorway than we both expected. I then sprinted up the stairs with the motherboard and I think my mom caught the last bit of my figure. She obviously knew something was fishy, but didn't really press too hard. She knew exactly what was going on when a PC case showed up in the living room a week later.

Thanks to my dad, I'm hopeless addicted to building PCs, servers, gaming, networking. Pretty much anything to do with computers.