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Perrinator, The Electrifying (Literally) Person!
Posted by Perrinator on August 1, 2010 under Blah Blahs, He He Ha HaYes, I am indeed, an electrifying person. In fact, I’m just soooo electrifying, I can shock myself or some other poor souls who happen to accidentally brush pass me (thank God no one got roasted or died of human electric shock). Well, check this fact out:
“Under severe conditions, more than 15,000 Volts have been recorded. It is quite common to experience 5,000V. In fact, many people do not feel a shock from a static electricity discharge less than about 2,000-4,000V.”
I guess most of us do have it, but I, for one, fall in between the range of common (5,000V) to severe (15,000V) category. If you don’t already know, static electricity results from an unequal (or positive and negative) charge between two objects. Heck, I think I am discharging a super high negative energy from my body, all thanks to my all-time negative thinking.
Hmmm…let me recall some electrifying events that I have encountered so far…
Car
Yeap, I get electrocuted from the car door or any part of the car as soon as I stepped out of it. If you ever see me in a parking lot and notice the really weird way I get out of or in the car, well, I’m just trying to be extra careful not to touch it, that’s all. And…I got this clever thinking one day, “hey, since I get shocked by touching it, why not I close the door by using my enormous butt?” well, you see, I was wearing a really thick jeans that time, and I was very sure that no way in hell that electricity is gonna come out of my fleshy bum through the thick jeans, right? WRONG! So I got zapped right in my @$$ and yes, I heard that ZZZIIITTTT (like the sound you hear from an electric spark) sound! WTF!! Now, I usually close the car door using my elbow, my feet or I simply place my hand on the car window to shut the door.
Iron gate
Sigh. I’ll never be able to open a gate or close it without getting shocked outta my wits. Usually I tried to gently discharge the electricity in my body by holding the ends of my car keys (you know, that rubbery thing that looked like a key padding or something) and tap it a few times or just place it on the gate for a few seconds. Well, it works most of the time. I even resort to buying those thick gardening gloves to protect myself from getting zapped but even so, I still managed to get shocked through the gloves. Sigh. Oh, one day, when I got home and was about to open the gate with my bare hands, I hesitated for a moment and debated whether I should get the gloves from my car first. Unfortunately, as my fingers were dangerously near the gate, I heard a very soft ziittt and hollieee baloney, I saw a very fine, white thread-like line coming out of my fingertip and it disappeared into the gate!!! Hollliiieeee Zeus!!! That was like a micro mini lightning in action! Whoa!
<* Perrinator begins to think that she might have a hidden electrifying superpowers and she just need to find ways to harness and use it *>
Railings
I think people get jolted all the time when they touch those metallic railings in shopping malls. Okay, maybe not most people but I sure as hell do! Now you’ll never see me rest against the railings or go anywhere near it. If I’m tired, I’ll just sit on one of those wooden benches or plastic seats at the mall.
<* Perrinator fails to harness her superpowers…instead, she imagine zapping the crap out of people she doesn’t like. Mr & Ms Backstabbers, Mrs Nosey, Mr Long-Winded, Mr & Ms Judge, Mr & Ms Bragging, Mrs Hantu and Mrs Wicked are some of the top people in her Honey-I-So-Want-To-Jolt-You list *>
Water.
What. The. Zap?! Water???? WATER???!!! Seriously, water????????? Can people get shocked by touching water??!! I never believe this until I got that watery shock myself! I was having a seafood feast one day and got my hands all dirty from zapping peeling the crabs and I wanted to wash my hands after that. So I turned on the tap and the moment my first two fingertips touched the running water, I heard that sharp ZZIIITTTTT sound! Ouch!!! Well, after I did a google on this, basic science says, WATER is also something CONDUCTIVE just like metal! Hmmm…no wonder I always got a C in my science subject!
Human contact
Yes, folks, beware of the Terrifying Electronator when you see her around…
<* Perrinator’s world suddenly fell eerily silent…*>
Awww come on people, there’s no need to run away from me! I won’t bite! Err, I just jolt you a little, that’s all. Okay, I gotta admit, some of my friends who experienced unpleasant jolts from me will maintain a safe distance from me when they go shopping or simply hanging out with me. But for some of them who don’t feel a thing when they brush pass me, well, I did feel that sharp pain! So, that electrifying pain either goes both ways or one way. My greatest Jolt-A-Friend memory? It was with Yin Lu, one of my best buddies. Yes, we were out shopping at a mall one day, and we were not walking that close to each other, but as soon as she walked past me closely WITHOUT brushing over my shoulder…we both heard a LOUD sparkling noise (in fact, it was the loudest spark of all my jolting experiences) and the only one word that came out of our mouths simultaneously was “OUCH!!!!!!!!” Somehow, the static electric from my body managed to discharge itself by ‘jumping’ from my shoulder across to my friend’s shoulder, and bear in mind that I was wearing a pretty thick cotton T-shirt and she herself was wearing a cardigan! Our shoulders were covered by fabric, for Zeus’ sake!
Unfortunately, there is no permanent cure for this annoying and painful phenomenon, only ways to REDUCE it. Of all the tactics to reduce the static electric in our body, I find this the most hilarious one:
“Shaving or clipping the hair on hairy legs will cause less static electricity to build up in the first place.”
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Does that also mean that hairy people tend to have more electricity in their body?? Well then, no wonder I bloody hell have lots of volts running in my veins, coz’ I am a hairy pig!
Wait a sec, did I just tell the world that I. AM. HAIRY???!!!
<* Psst…You should see her LEGS! *>
<* Perrinator abruptly stops blogging to find the source of the voice that blurted out the above sentence *>

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