That's actually fine because you were probably going straight to ground. When things are properly grounded and the small components are covered, the current wil

That's actually fine because you were probably going straight to ground. When things are properly grounded and the small components are covered, the current will flow through the thick ground conduit (the laptop body, thick copper on the PCB, eventually into the power cable). What you'd like to avoid is releasing that static charge through a tiny component on the board that couldn't handle the surge.