5 Chapter 5: Static Electricity
The second experience occurred when she was on land doing her weekly grocery shopping. Repeatedly she met with conduction problems as she shuffled through the store, yes the one with the bad fluorescent lighting. She experienced startling shocks every time she touched her cart.
“They must have installed a new electrical cart system here,” she concluded. But she also got a bolt running through her when she touched the chicken display. “Electric cameras? Surveillance to prevent theft maybe?”
By the time she had gotten all her groceries on her list at 9:30 at night (a move toward independence, leaving the house when street lights were on) Cee was exhausted.
Her hair was standing up more than she could. She had received over 100 shocks touching displays, pushing her cart, flip-flopping, and foot-dragging through that awful store.
Cee never did like grocery shopping. The cashier at checkout became concerned.
“Are you O.K.?”
CeeCee’s first words of her day were, “Did you guys install a new electrical surveillance, cart-display system in here?”
Was it that comment or the fact her thinning hair was sticking out, full of static electricity or just that people liked her? that caused the final shock. …Two assistants from the grocery store staff suddenly showed up, smiled at her a lot and helped her bag her purchases that night.
It was the quickest check out she ever had with this dreaded task. She must be liked. She again concluded.
These repeated hot lightning flashes caused some alarm after word search fooling around on the Big W: “cat-scratch fever?”
Or could it be Cotard’s,”Catard’s”, Syndrome a delusion that leads the victims to believe they are dead?
So she went to a new veterinarian nearby named Dr. Pat to see what the cause could be, if she had a diagnosable condition. It was just curiosity…
She was put through many tests and probes, stretched out, smeared around, pushed in. Alien abduction came to mind under the raw light of her nakedness.
Doctors’ degrees, procedures’ names and medical codes were given to her and explained. Her anxiety prevented her from understanding what had happened to her during her co-pay transaction.
But after finding out these hot electrical flashes were normal she firmly decided she never wanted to see that Doctor “Pat Smear” again.