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Comment on Discussion Thread 🪷 Wednesday 8 April 2026

Thornburywitch@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

It means that static electricity is building up in the actual room/building itself. And will discharge as soon as it can. If you are even slightly damp from the rain etc. then this will trigger the static discharge (water is a wonderful conductor and we are mostly made of water). Gold rings also can trigger a discharge.

General diagnosis - problems with the building’s electrical grounding - should be reported but it’s such an expensive fix that management often ignores it. If you can, report to the local fire brigade as it’s a known explosion risk in the event of a gas leak. And EPA. And Worksafe. I did that last time I got zapped at Norfcote Plaza. Caused no end of a hoo-ha but I haven’t been zapped there since.

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CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
It happens at every Aldi I go to. Starts in the carpark getting out of the car. I don’t see it happening to anyone else. They’re all busy shopping and I get weird looks. I don’t wear any jewellery. It has to be me for some reason I haven’t worked out.

Sometimes it’s a couple of zaps per shop. Sometimes it’s every single thing I touch.

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- Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  shoes, it’s your shoes
  
  get safety shoes
  
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  - CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    It can’t be my shoes because I wear different shoes all the time and it’s been happening for years.
    
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- Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Sounds like your car
  
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  - CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    That’s the weird thing, I wasn’t in my car today. YL drove me in her car. It happens in my husband’s car too.
    
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    Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Do you excitedly rub your shopping bags on the way to the aisle of mystery?
    
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- Thornburywitch@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Sounds like the building needs an electrics overhaul to me. You only need to be the connector between the charged item (shop) and something that grounds it - then as we are mostly water we become the conductor of the electricity. In Norfcote Plaza it was happening to me every time I stepped on the metal expansion joints in the tiled floor. Didn’t matter what shoes etc. I was wearing either. And I wasn’t the only one.
  
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  - CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    I go to 3 different Aldi’s regularly, 2 are in shopping centres, one is free standing. It happens at all of them.
    
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