Cold, dry, and shocking

We had a bit of a cold blast here in SoCal recently.  Along with it came some dry air which made for a lot of static electricity.  I gave myself a pretty good shock one night and even saw the flash out of the corner of my eye.  I had to relearn my trick of holding my car key (fingers on the metal part) and tapping that on the door to discharge.  That way, the spark jumps from the key to the door and not from my finger resulting in less pain.