HER MOTHER SOLD HER “BROKEN” LAPTOP FOR $500

Brooks was a good kid who had simply bought the wrong laptop.

He sat at my mother’s kitchen table drinking the lemonade she pressed on him out of some reflex she couldn’t turn off, and he kept apologizing.

“I swear I didn’t open any files,” he said. “It wouldn’t boot. I just pulled the drive to see if I could fix it. That’s all I do, I fix stuff, I sell continue reading …