[scott says]

Actually there is a certain amount of truth to this. My Mom ,late 70's, is completely freaked out by machines. She got a new car and the stereo broke for no reason, we bought her a VCR way back, that mysteriously stopped working. I bought her a cd player and that stopped working too.My sister ,who is into all that goofy new age stuff,{she went to Berkeley Psychic Institute, still does "readings"} said this happens because my Mom's nervous/bad vibes traumatizes the machines, her energy actually breaks them. I always ridicule that kind of stuff, coincidence or is it true?

[kingattax]

calling a computer a 'machine' might hurt its feelings,so maybe we should refer to them as protoplasmically-challenged.

[jocon307]

I always think there is sort of a magnetic field around people that causes these problems. Some people just have a stronger wave than others do.

[Swordmaker]

Actually there is a certain amount of truth to this.

When I was in college I dated a very beautiful young woman who could literally stop clocks, or at least watches. She told me that she could not wear a watch because of that ability. I didn't belive her. She reached over and placed her hand on my brand new Longines-Wittnauer, Non-Magnetic, 17 jewel, Chronograph wristwatch ($450 of very hard earned, starving college student cash).

This one (identical to mine, which I still have) is for
sale in the Tokyo Ginza District for $1327.

She held my wrist for about a minute. Then she let go. The second hand was still and not moving. When I said "You ruined my watch!" She said "Don't worry."

A few minutes later, the second hand moved... and about ten seconds later again... and again, about five seconds after that... and agains in about two seconds. Soon it was keeping perfect time again. She said she could not have a clock in her room because they would stop. Her roommate confirmed that. Even the roommate wristwatches would not work after a night in their dorm room... but they would start working a few minutes after leaving her presence.

When we went out, I found that my watch would stop if I put my left arm around her... so I got in the habit of always sitting on her left so it was my right arm that went around her shoulders.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

because my Mom's nervous/bad vibes traumatizes the machines, her energy actually breaks them. I always ridicule that kind of stuff, coincidence or is it true?

You should have installed a VCR in her house that she did not know about and then let it run. You could have tracked its performance to see if it too would break down.