FHACG suffers from the same malady that I suffer from: surrounded by a big field of static electricity that wants to go to ground and it HURTS when it does. My kids still laugh about the times that we would go to the supermarket and I would throw a spark whenever I reached for an item on the shelf. Perhaps this is yet another one of the problems of red-headed-ness (I think that Tom Robbins wrote about some of the others in Still Life With Woodpecker).

I just always assumed that it was because I was wearing rubber soled shoes and (usually) cotton jeans. Beloitpipers advice to wear wool seems good but remember that the classic static electricity experiment in your grammar school science book that told you to rub a glass rod with a piece of wool to create a static charge...ZOTZ!

All that I've ever been able to think of is to wrap a length of chain around my left ankle and let a foot or so drag behind me as a grounding strap. Granted, you'd feel like Marley's Ghost but it would ground out the static.

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AA