Spider

brushing my hair tonight in the bathroom, i startled at the sight of a daddy-long-legs clinging to the underside of the hot water handle. i have a great deal of appreciation and respect for spiders, and generally am glad to see them, but the positioning of this one, right where a hand could grasp it unknowingly, caught me off guard. i watched it for a bit while watching my insides roll. it struggled to keep its grip on the metal handle, then it pulled its abdomen up to the handle, appearing to sit down, and drank from a droplet of water that was clinging there.

after a brief drink, it struggled and finally succeeded in fixing a bit of webbing to the handle, lowered itself down in jerks to the sink, walked to a larger pool of water, and appeared to sit down there as well, just at the very edge of the water, and drink more. it occurred to me that it may come to the sink routinely, whenever it hasn't seen enough insect action to keep it hydrated.

what a world we live in, where during the whirlwind of our days, completely unbeknownst to us, spiders come to our sinks to drink.