I'm skeptical about this witchcraftery!

[Korietsu]

Does your fiancee's friend have native american blood?

[Khamsin]

Does your fiancee's friend have native american blood?

Or did any of her ancestors kill a native american, or build on their burial grounds?

[quannum]

I've always seemed to have higher levels of static electricity than other people around me, so something like this doesn't surprise me.

Sentinels may or may not be on the way to your house at this time.

[Ashira]

Or did any of her ancestors kill a native american, or build on their burial grounds?

Or bury a dead cat there?

[Nuketwig]

http://www.gibsonbooks.com/shop_image/product/41203.jpg

Friggen cats man.

[Doofus]

My grandmother has this.....'condition', she cant wear a watch longer than a few days without it just stopping, and shes tried like 50 of them, nobody knows why.

[Plow]

/slightderail

On a personal note, I discovered some years ago I have the exact opposite situation. Apparently people in my family have an extremely high skin resistance, to the point it actually reduces electrical conductivity.

Several years ago, I was taking a Psych class to fill an elective in college, and as part of the stupid class we had to do mandatory volunteering in the experiments the department did in order to have the possibility of getting an 'A' instead of just a 'B'. Well, being lazy, and wanting to get it done as soon as possible, I opted to go for the one time only experiment where they shocked you, and measured several different voluntary and involuntary responses. The shocks were designed to range from barely detectable to moderately painful. You were asked to choose the smallest shock you could feel, and the highest you were willing to tolerate. Over the course of hours, they measured how consistent your answers were, and they also measured eye and muscle movement. After the fact, I also found out they wanted to see just how long people would stay in the chair before asking to quit.

Anyway, when they were attaching some of the little suction cup probes for their equipment on me, they noticed they were barely getting any readings regarding the electrical output related to muscle movement, eye movement, and brain activity. After hooking up the assistant into the chair instead, they determined everything was working, but apparently they couldn’t get a reading off of me.

They ended up having to go find some sort of crazy conductive gel, and had to literally scrape my arms, legs, and scalp and apply this gel to get any readings at all.

To top it off, I maxed out on their electrical shock levels the machine could produce, and was the only person who made it through all 3 hours of shocks. I could barely feel it, and I could tell it was almost pissing the grad student off because he probably found the reactions from shocking people funny.

Not 6 months later, while working at an internship with an electrical contractor, one of the electricians had this pen that shocked you when you clicked it, and he gave it to me to use for the day. I used it for about an hour without really noticing anything. He was pissed his joke was ruined, tried it himself, and was shocked so bad he dropped the pen. He tried touching my arm with it to no avail, and trying it upon himself again, was once again shocked.

Friends joke it's some sort of tolerance or evolution from coming from a family that has been involved with electricity, and getting shocked, for years (electricians, computer techs, etc). I have shocked myself on a 120V electrical hookup on accident a few times, and it generally doesn’t hurt too badly, and the reaction was always less than when other guys got shocked. I guess some people are just more prone to, or create more electrical current and magnetic fiends than others. To top it off, when I wear watches, the battery usually lasts for several years.

Please tell me this was like 30+ years ago

[Seraph]

Please tell me this was like 30+ years ago

Nope, was almost exactly 4 years ago. Wasn't that painful, but man, after like 3 hours it got annoying as shit. I also got the 'A'. /shrug