i got a floater!

Holy shit. I almost just drank a gecko. How did that little dude get into my glass of water?? He must have been on the inside of the window and just happened to fall right in, kersplash, at exactly the right spot to land in my water glass on the windowsill. He was floating there on the surface tension (he’s pretty tiny, maybe a toddler gecko) and luckily I happened to look into the glass just before taking a swallow and there I was, eyeball to eyeball with him.

SHRIEK!

Don’t get me wrong. I love geckos. They eat things that I like a whole lot less. Plus they’re cute, and when they crawl up the outsides of the windows they keep the cats occupied for long stretches of time. I just don’t want to ingest one: bad for me, worse for the gecko.

I’m pretty sure that I usually just drink without bothering to look inside my glass first. I take the purity of my liquids for granted.

I’m also pretty sure that I’m going to change my modus operandi on this whole issue now that I know there’s a possibility of live baby reptiles taking a swim in my drinks.