To think I shouldn't get shocked everywhere I go?

[Allinson2014]

Just that really. I seem to get static shocks off of everything and I'm always a bit worried about touching metal as I know it's going to happen. Some examples...

I was in Primark and when the cashier gave me my change she gave me a static shock too. A couple of weeks later I was in a different Primark and anticipated it happening so paid with a larger note but they only had coin change. The shock was so much that I actually threw my change in the air .

My car - it shocks me about 75% of the time when I close the door. I thought I'd got round this by holding the metal door frame as I got out, but earlier I had hold of the door and touched the other door and that one gave me a static shock! How's that even possible?

Metal hand rails always shock me so I can't touch them.

Lift buttons almost always shock me. So shamefully I get my children to press the buttons, they enjoy it and for some reason it doesn't shock them!

I once stroked our cat and shocked his ear!

I know man made fibres etc are worse to generate a charge but it doesn't seem to matter what I'm wearing.

It's driving me mad!

Tin cans on supermarket shelves shock me every single time. Hate it! Doesn't happen at home or when I take them out of the trolley to pay, only when taking them off the shelf.

Its been happening to me more and more recently too.

I always get a shock when I get out of my car. Someone suggested touching the glass window first to discharge it, but it doesn't work any more. Its painful and I'm sure I saw sparks the last two times. I definately heard a crackle.

I also shocked my friend's cat, twice, and now it runs away when it sees me.

I always get a shock of escalators.

This is in three different pairs of shoes.

I get this. I wear Ugg-style boots a lot and tend to shuffle my feet (oh, the glamour ). Add nylon carpets and I positively crackle.

I get shocks everywhere too ,but especially pushing a shopping trolley .
Car doors ,shop doors ,everywhere .
I also get a slight charge off the top of my hob .and when my phone is charging I can feel the 'buzz' from it.
I am also nicknamed Jinx in my house because if there lightbulb to blow ,or any appliance to die ,I will be the one to kill it .just by switching it on .
These static shocks are damned painful ,and very annoying .

I second BeCool's advice, basically just slap a few times to discharge before opening windows, doors, switching on lights etc. I used to get shocks at the time at work and it stopped once I started slapping (inanimate) stuff. I look like a complete prick though, having to slap the door every time I go through.

The worst is I live in a culture where there is a fair amount of hand shaking and I try to surrepticiously slap the desk before shaking hands except it's really hard to stealth slap something when greeting someone so I usually end up with awkwardly explaining why. I'm sure most people must secretly think it's a weird British custom they haven't heard about before or something.

I'm so glad to read this!
I fly a lot, and there is one airport where I get one from my laptop after it has been through the scanner every bloody time
I now find it really hard to reach for it, and am paranoid that I look like a terrorist!

I get this too. I remember once coming out of the cinema with DH after sitting on a carpeted seat for 2 hours. He was walking by the metal hand rail on the stairs with his hand on it. He kept prodding me with his finger and sending visible little sparks to me which he couldn't feel but which were bloody painful to me. We joke that I get static shocks even through other people touching things. It was funny until I had DCs and now every time I catch them off a plastic slide or take them to a playground we get awful shocks which can make them cry. I dare not touch them sometimes.

I get a lot from the lifts at my local shopping centre. I also got a lot from DHs old car - a rover. I was nervous of even opening the door, it always zapped me. Since we had a C-Max I don't have the problem, though a poster above does! Odd, isn't it?
DH crackles like cellophane when he removes his biking top in the evening. In the dark you can clearly see the static - long purple lines of it!
I have shocked DH on the lips before, when leaning in for a kiss, that freaked him out! I put it down to the crap fashionable trainers I wore a lot at the time.

Only read the op but for a few months this has been a massive issue for me! DP has been laughing at me getting them off if my car nine times out of ten but its not just me! Even when closing the car only rouching the window I seem to get thwm

A few weeks ago my 2yo charge kept giving them to me, to the point where she found it hilarious to poke me and shout "ow!" With a massive grin on her face [Hmm]

Ill read through now and see if someone has a solution :)

Me me me!! Always get them in Peter Jones in Sloane Square. I cringe as I approach the doors to go in. Always happens at least once in there (it's my nearest JL too so go quite often).

Also got it recently in the big primark on Oxford street.

Will have to consider slapping rather than gingerly touching but not such the elderly sloaney grannies will appreciate it!

DP has the story of when he was a child, at the bowling alley, he was sat waiting for his go, shuffling his feet on the floor the whole time, they called him over for his turn, but as he got up he touched one of the metal screws on his chair and got one almighty shock that literally floored him. :o