Does anyone else get 'belts' from....

[Feistybird]

cars
shopping trolleys
other people
etc.

I do on a daily basis (even through leather gloves fgs) and I hate it.

I must be highly static or something.

Is there anything I can do to reduce it

where rubber wellies??

wear rubber wellies .. not where rubber wellies

(werewolf? ... there wolf .. )

I thought you meant you find belts around the place and nick them lol!

Yes I do, esp at home when wearing ugg boots slipper things. Do you wear uggs? They seem the worst for some reason.

Also when weather is cold is much worse, I had friends who went to moscow in Feb on honeymoon and couldn't snog or hold hands because they got really bad shocks

and you call yourself a pedat, Ms Twig

cars all the time

pedat???

pedant, f'ing DD messing with the mouse and throwing the cursor around the screen

touching them with your wedding ring first - then you won't feel the discharge so much. Could also be your shoes causing it.

have never called myself a pedant .. that's other people .. not sure I like it tbf

lol

I thought 'ugg' was a typo until I saw you'd typed it in twice!

ok so I move to somewhere hot and wear rubber wellies.

hmmmm....

why are you touching a load of cars anyway?

is it some weird kind of fetish

Kelly - am wearing leather boots....

do they have ugg like soles?

Only at the weekends Twig

CD Ugg soles? what are you on about woman??

ok just googled, no they don't.

Do like their Layback style though....

Is your hair static too??
Do you use fabric conditioner??

I 5think rubber is supposed to make it worse rather than leather. Seriously tho, all you need to do it touch the object with soemthing metal first - like your ring or keys or whatever. Then you won't get a shock.

soz for typing - v, v tired!

hair is not too bad (I mean I don't constantly look like I have my finger in the plug socket) and yes I do use fabric conditioner.

Also occasionally get belts when I kiss my dd's and dp (although much rare with him as I kiss him a lot less)

Kelly will try that - thanks.

My Mum is a nightmare for this - especially in shops, you actually hear the crack when she touches something. I do it in certain shoes and certain shops - Boots is a bad one, for some reason. And my Chicco Trekking used to do it - it kind of charged me up when I was pushing it then I'd get a hell of a shock when I touched something.

I get them all the time -the worst recently seems to be from buttons on lifts.
I even got one the other day from a shop assistant who was giving me my change -we both looked at each other and shouted "Ouch" much to the amusement of the other assistant!

God yes, lifts are a nightmare and used to get dp to push buggies, they all made me crackle.