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I'm developing a car door handle phobia. Is there any way to avoid the electric shocks?

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TooTicky · 09/05/2007 12:38

On warm days, I get out of the car and as soon as I go to open the back door - ZAP! It's quite painful sometimes.

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themoon66 · 09/05/2007 13:15

Touching something non-metal will not discharge the static.

Kelly1978 · 09/05/2007 13:16

touch it with a key or wedding ring or whatever first. I get this a lot. I get it off the kids too, when they've been on the bouncy castle. I can hear the spark sometimes, it's horrible.

littlerach · 09/05/2007 13:16

Use the window.
To shut the door, not to climb out of.

Happens to me all of th etime, and I'm sure thaT i LOOK crazy as I leap around shouting profanities at the empty car.

So I push the window rather than the door.

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TooTicky · 09/05/2007 13:18

I even get it from the window.

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ChippyMinton · 09/05/2007 13:19

Horrible isn't it? A friend and I both had shocks in the playground when it was warm. Was there today, wearing same trainers, no shocks. Wierd.

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TooTicky · 09/05/2007 13:19

And I'm sure I look crazy, hesitating, trying to touch the door just quickly without actually touching it, to get it over with.

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aardvarktwo · 09/05/2007 13:24

I have to touch the ground with my fingernail before touching the car. I think it is worse when it is dry (which would be when it is warmer). Also in my office I always touch teh wooden bit of the door with my fingernailbefore touching the metal door handle. I do it so automatically I don't notice I am doing it now.

MrsWho · 09/05/2007 14:00

aardvark- am interested to know ^how6 you found that works do you often touch the floor with your nail?

minkybiscuit · 09/05/2007 14:03

This very morning I received 12 shocks from my trolley whilst going round Tesco - one made such a loud crack that people turned round to see... very painful. Serves me right for buying into the supermarket machine and not supporting my local shopkeepers I s'pose!

AitchTwoOh · 09/05/2007 19:34

took dd to the swingpark this afternoon, she was actually crackling as she slid down the chute. her hair was so filled with static that every time i went near her it spiked up to meet me... agony. weirdly, despite my yelps she really didn't seem to notice.

ChippyMinton · 09/05/2007 20:38

Our park has an artifical surface like a carpet with sand underneath - i wondered if that made the static?

Califrau · 09/05/2007 20:50

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CuriousSquid · 09/05/2007 20:54

wrap your sleeve around your hand. I do that in lifts. I close car doors by pushing the window now though.

I get it off DS2's pushchair in shops alot and it doesn't matter wjat shoes i wear or how many layers i have got on over my hand it bloody hurts!

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