If you were in our local supermarket the other day you would have heard the following noises.

"Ow" . . . . ., "ow" . . . . . , "ow" . . . . . followed by a smaller voice shouting "OW".  This was repeated several times around the supermarket. 

Was it a clumsy person dropping things on their feet?  Was it the lady at the meat counter? Was it a child being pulled along by his ear?

No, it was me and my daughter.

Having walked to pick up my other children from school I decided to pop in and pick up a few groceries before they came out.  My daughter was in the pushchair and as we walked around collecting our food I kept getting hit by static electricity.

What I hadn’t realised was that as I was being shocked it was running down the metal of the pushchair and zapping my daughter!

It was the most painful shopping experience ever!

I am prone to static electricity, just put me on a bouncy castle in the heat and watch the hair.  But this was horrible.  My daughter wanted to jump out of the pushchair, so it must have hurt. 

I did tell a couple of the staff but they didn’t seem to care much and really what could they do?

Being static does have it’s upsides though.  I’ve found out I have a new party trick.