Ummm... To actually do anything, your wrist strap or other ESD measures must be grounded.
For safety, if it is connected to a human, you want at least a 1 meg resistor or something to keep you from being quite as likely to fry yourself if you don't know what you're doing.
(Though, actually sometimes I think more people who don't know have no idea what they're doing should probably be darwin-awarded out of existence if they think they know what they're doing, but demonstrably do not, and zap themselves to death... but I digress...)