Anyone else always getting static shocks?

[MomOfCritters]

Just that really, just out curiosity I want to see if it's common, it drives me insane as it always happens to me, I feel like a right weirdo at the shops as I'm terrified of touching anything metal, my hand actually pulls back, I even use a teddy key chain to push buttons on lifts, anyone else this bad?

Me.. since I was a small child. It makes no difference what shoes I wear, and I wear mostly cotton clothes..hate manmade fibres, but I shock myself multiple times a day and anyone else I touch!

I also can't wear watches as they stop on me!

This thread has reminded me actually. As I child I always blew lightbulbs, and once touched a drinking glass in the sink and it exploded
Stopped once I was about 16 and haven’t thought about it for years

All the time. The button to let me out where I used to work used to get me every time. I get them in supermarkets, but weirdly now mostly when I pick up the cats!! Every time just as I put them down and my hand is on their belly it shocks the poor buggers! I feel awful.

It's down to what I wear on my feet I think. I do twelve hour hospital shifts and there's only two pairs of footwear I can manage to stand in for that long. One is my soft leather DMs - I get no shocks at all in those, and the other is my Skechers, which I've stopped wearing because I'm sick of being shocked with every bastard lift/combination lock/bed I touch!

The only other time I've noticed it in my life is when DC1 was in a pushchair a decade and a half ago - I was constantly being shocked in Morrison's as I pushed the buggy round - all other supermarkets were fine.

I think its linked to what you're wearing right?
Around a month ago I was in a three story shopping centre (with buggy so had to get the lift) and every time I pressed the lift buttons I got a shock!

I had on pretty much all polyester clothing (don't judge me! Was having a day dressed head to toe in fast fashion labels- that'll teach me) and dear god i am not making that mistake again. I was literally crackling all around that shopping centre 🤣

I've always been staticky. It's been dry here lately so it's been bad the last few days. The plastic rattan-effect garden furniture keeps getting me.

Thanks for the car tip, I'll be doing that from now on!

Me! A couple of years ago, it was the car, so I’m still paranoid about slamming the door shut. Currently, it’s the blanket on the sofa: if the dog jumps down, he shocks me because he’s been lying on the blanket! It’s ridiculous!

I’m with you re in shops, OP, notably TKMaxx, for some reason. I really need to use the handrail to go upstairs there but I’m scared to touch it in case I get shocked yet again!

@Fearnecuptea

I think its linked to what you're wearing right? Around a month ago I was in a three story shopping centre (with buggy so had to get the lift) and every time I pressed the lift buttons I got a shock!

I had on pretty much all polyester clothing (don't judge me! Was having a day dressed head to toe in fast fashion labels- that'll teach me) and dear god i am not making that mistake again. I was literally crackling all around that shopping centre 🤣

It doesn't seem to matter for me. I tried all sorts and no difference. Different shoes too. I walked around barefoot in the office once to try that, didn't work! I hated it!

I've had it loads the last few days, something to do with weather / pressure maybe? I'm wearing the same clothes and shoes as I was a few weeks ago, now every time I touch a fridge door in tesco, touch the car and other random things I'm zapped.

I live in crocs so yes, me!

I gave DH a shocking kiss once
The DCs often get shocks when they touch me too.

DH has the mens version of my trainers, but he doesn't build up a charge like me. I have produced sparks and cracks before.

Shopping centres are awful. I hate having to touch something after being on an escalator.

I get it more in the winter-touching a supermarket trolley can be quite painful.

I shock myself many times a day. Door handles, window frames, garden furniture in the summer is sparky, if someone comes in for a hug I literally shock them, the cats, the toilet for some reason, the latch on the front gate, it doesn't matter what I'm wearing or what I'm sitting on. I've given my partner shocks while dtd.

My FIL is an electrician and he used one of his Multimeters as a joke one day to put the probe against my arm, the dial started rocking over and back. So he put it to his own arm, nothing. We tested it on everyone else in the house that day and back to me in between. No reading at all for the other 6 people tested and each time he put the probe against my arm it started rocking the dial over and back. We decided it was possibly muscle spasm although I am on a maximum dose of muscle relaxers. We have repeated this experiment many times over the years and no matter who we try it on, nothing and back to me and the dial starts rocking over and back. I'm a one woman power station.

Sometimes with my car.

And sometimes with my cat if I touch his nose or ears - poor bugger!

All the time and I give them to other people too.

I also can't wear watches - within a few minutes of wearing a watch, they stop - not sure if connected?

Ugh this is me.

I work in a new building and an old building. I think the new building has a vinyl type floor and it makes it so bad. I get nervousreaching for the door handles!

Sometimes the shock is painful. I am a teacher and sometimes if I touch a child they feel the shock. It doesn't really happen at home too much, but I definitely get it from my car - good to nknow that tip about holding the door first!

I definitely notice in work that I have two pairs of shoes that make it much worse.

I used these all the time and it was really embarrassing cos I would be yelping at the lift in Boots or something

Your post has made me realise this has now stopped for me! How strange. I had it my whole life.

This happens to me, and I'm another who can't wear a watch.

I had no idea this was so common! I have made such a fuss at work that they're changing my office door so I can close it, as I've had the door propped open for six months because the shocks I get are so painful. Escalators, bus stair bannisters and self-scanning machines also hate me. Less so if I'm in birkenstocks, worse in sketchers.

I don't get it often but after using the bug polyester parachute with my class yesterday it was a nightmare!

Yes me, constantly have static shocks.

@SaskiaRembrandt

This happens to me, and I'm another who can't wear a watch.

I can't wear a watch either!

Yes me too.
When I worked in retail i used to short the till so it had to reset....eventually someone else had to ring up my sales.

Have accidently shocked many colleagues as tbe carpets at work are a nightmare no matter what footwear I have on.

Have seen sparks arc out my finger and zap DH and seem to constantly get shocks in m&s food but only in the household goods aisle!???

Does anyone know why some of us are more charged than others?

yes, but I am in an off phase just now. I cannot pin it down to any particular thing, Dh's car was a trigger for ages, but that has stopped over the last six months, but maybe that's technique/habit, as I was forcing myself to get out whilst holding a metal part. I never get a shock from my car. Although I have had a few which did.

The Punto was so regular I got one of those dangly strips from a little car accessory place and he fitted it for me, he was very excited as he hadn't sold one for years, I think he thought they were coming back into fashion! :o

Another time I was fannying about at the car as I had "arse bumped" the door closed only the seat belt had caught and I knew if I touched it to open it I'd get zapped and a random guy came over to ask if he could help! He said his wife struggled with it too!

But YY to shocking the cats, the dog, shopping trollies, clothes rails, door handles, lifts.

I also cannot be near a radio, or tune in one as it will lose signal, or crackle and hiss, my eldest has this too. We are not allowed to be in the kitchen together as the radio goes crazy...and it's a DAB
Used to be bad with watches as a child but that also seems to have stopped

I probably will start this again now I said it's off. I hate it. I do walk about in bare feet a lot more though so maybe that's helped.