@DJC3 I have problems touching lift buttons (I get a shock and I use my rubber tipped stick or crutches outside and inside the lift to touch the buttons...and get stares...), metal cages holding goods on supermarket shelves etc...and more things too. And I am not supposed to have shocks because of the cochlear implant (and the wires and magnet in my head), although I have a document which tells me the range I can accept before it damages my cochlear implant. But how the heck do I know what that is before I try and lift a tin off the supermarket shelf?
I was trying to lift a tin off a wire grid shelf when I got a very sharp shock. I wanted the blinking tin. I tried again. Another shock. So I went to look for an assistant, and explained. They did come and lift the item for me out of the wire grid shelf, and carried it to the counter for me (the item was only small) but they looked at me as though I was doolally and it was time for them to call the men in white coats on me.
Then I was still unable to lift it off the counter to carry it to the car (because the tin kept shocking me and the guy thought I was crazy each time I pulled my hand back as it gave me a shock) and so I had to ask the assistant to carry it to the car for me because it was still giving me shocks. The assistant ‘knew’ I was definitely ready for the funny farm. I got home, and the tin was fine for me to pick up and get it out of the car to my bungalow.
The way the assistant was looking at me frightened me badly. And I now order all my tins from Amazon now... I have no problem taking any tin out the the cardboard box it comes from Amazon, and I have no problems handling tins or any metal at home.
Some days I am worse than others with this, but I have given up going to the shops for anything that involves metal or tins that I have to directly touch.
I have been like this since I was a child...
It is easier to stay at home and not go out...