To ask if anyone gets daily electric shocks

[GabbySolisX]

I know this isn’t really an AIBU but I’m fed up of having electric shocks.

The last two weeks I seem to be getting a lot of electric shocks. Every time I open the car door I get one without fail, I’m starting to cover my hand before I touch it as I’m scared of the shock now.

Anyone else get this? I’ve had the car since August last year (it was a used 2012 plate) and never had a shock from it up until the last couple of weeks where it’s constant. Went shopping today and everything i touched gave me such a zap too. 😩

doesn’t seem to happen in the house at all, just when shopping and getting in and out of the car for the last fortnight.

Oh thank god my cats don’t do this as I have my fair share of them 😂 I’d be being zapped all day. I’d be so miserable, as would they I’m sure!

I've had this since my teens. It's quite bad in shopping centres with their escalators/metal bannisters etc.
I've found that wearing Crocs makes it worse too.

I get them all the time. If you tap your car door with your car key before you touch the door then that stops it. I also use rubber gloves to touch the kitchen tap!

It is worse depending on what clothes/shoes I’m wearing.

This literally never happens to me. I wonder why I don’t have this and others do?

Yes! Randomly started a few weeks ago and now i get probably 20 or more a day. You can actually see the sparks flying and some are really painful!
My kids and dog are scared to touch me now 😂

I was thinking this too - but I do remember getting them as a young child, the visible sparky zappers as pp have described. Can't really pinpoint when or why they stopped though. Neither my husband nor children get them .. maybe I'm overly heavy handed with fabric softener?!

Yes! I’m getting them ALL THE TIME recently, like 5 to 10 times a day!! It’s infuriating. I don’t know what is causing it, there doesn’t seem to be any link between occurrences except me 🤷‍♀️ I get them at home, I get them at work, I get them at the shops, I get them in the car, I get them at the park. It’s sooo odd!

If we all joined hands I bet we could light up a small town! 😃

I have taken to covering my hands with my sleeve before touching anything metal like a door handle for fear of an electric shock.

Yes! I work in a fully metal office with metal doors, metal desks etc. I touch everything with my foot first, everytime i move. Again, I touch the car with my foot first...

It seems to be something to do with the clothes/shoes I wear and possibly whether the clothes have been in the tumble dryer... maybe.

Not daily but often when it’s dry cold weather. I’ve noticed my hair is full of static some days. I get shocks off people as well as objects. Can be quite painful!

I get them all the time at work.
I think it’s the electronic security doors.

I’m so glad to read this thread…I’ve been getting multiple static shocks every day for the last week or so which is unusual for me. I only used to get them from my car doors but now I’m getting them from taps, handles and handrails. Was wondering if I was developing a super power or something…

I used to, when I was pushing our pushchair and pressed a lift button.

This is so weird to read because recently I’ve been getting loads of electric shocks. I also recently started on iron supplements, and also got new fur lined slippers 🤔

I had to google the other day whether it was possible to get static shocks off running water, as I'd just been shocked and worried that something was wrong with my home electrics but no, perfectly possible.

I get static shocks off everything. There's a plant in the office that zaps me when I walk past, the door frames (metal) zap me, the window handles zap me.

At home, I can't touch the cat without giving him a zap first. Our garden chairs I can't put my hands on the arms when I sit down or stand up because the zaps are the worst.

You have nothing but sympathy from me OP!

It's exacerbated by my shoes sometimes (my slippers are particularly bad - fake ugg style, like others are reporting), but there isn't a day that goes by that something doesn't get me!

I used to own a cardigan that was particularly static. I quite liked taking it off in a darkened room as you could actually see the static jumping!

I get shocks off the filing cabinets at work too. I've taken to touching the paper in the label holder on the top drawer before I go to open them and that seems to work for me.

Otherwise, if I think I'm going to get a shock, I'll touch it with the back of my hand first - hurts less than a finger!

I did brush the door frame yesterday and got zapped on my bum!

I keep getting one every time I touch my dog. He obviously feels it too as he looks at me like I've just hurt him on purpose!😩

I used to. It’s decreased over the last 15 years though and I’ve never thought about why. I also used to stop watches - I think that was related.

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Every day at work! Particularly if I have my flat loafers on, which have a kind of rubber sole. I think I create loads of static walking on our cheap nylon carpets, and then when I touch the tap in the kitchen, I get a massive shock. Also get one from the photocopier sometimes.
I ground myself by touching my elbow to the tap now. Less of a shock (pardon the pun) than a shock to my fingers.

This is what I do. I look a bit mental when out and about but hey! (Everything I touch gives me a shock)

Oh. I haven't thought about this in years but when I was young yes, constantly, all the time very time I touched anything or anyone. Not now though. It must have stopped without me noticing. I wonder what changed?

Just catching up with this thread when the Amazon man knocked on the door. Went to answer it, and got a massive shock off the door handle.

Yes if it’s a dry day and I’ve got the shoes I wear in the gym on.