Static Shock

AAh!, What the heck! Every time I enter my office or home I say these words. Reason: Static Shock. Those of you who live near equator may not have had any such shocking experience because it is mostly a cold place's phenomenon. It is a light electric shock that you get when your body accumulates more charge with respect to a neutral conducting object. So, when you touch a metal object,like when I touch my office door nob,you get excited. At that moment you wish to punch or kick hard the door nob so that even it feels the same what you feel about it. But, believe me it is not a good idea; I learnt it from my experience.

After being victimized everyday, I tried to find the ways if static shock could be avoided. To my surprise, I found an electronic device for avoiding the static shock on the web which you would need to carry all the time;it was more than $10. After thinking more, I challenged myself, being an electronics engineer, to find some electronic law which can help me save my money and my life(though no one ever died of static shock but why take risk). I researched my undergrad book from freshman year when you are first told that electricity line to your home doesn't come from nowhere. Through Wikipedia I found out that if I touch a high resistance material then all the charge accumulated on my body would discharge slowly,thus I won't experience any shock. But the problem was that I would have to know before touching such a thing that I am charged. Unfortunately, I get to know this the moment I get discharged.

With no help from electronics/Wikipedia/Google/friends , I thought about a very different aspect of dealing with my enemies,static shock and my office door nob. As someone said,'If you can't win join them.' So, next morning, Knowingly that I am charged, I went to my roommates' office, who had not cleaned his dishes this morning, and I just poked him. Next morning, to my surprise,kitchen was clean. I started using my uncommon sense, and every morning I would meet new people to make friends with them and break away our infant friendship with just one hand shake. It is really fun to see people's expressions and what they say. I love when someone says,AAh!,What the heck!