Coming back from a hike I say to my husband, Look what I found!
Are you going to put that on?
I put it on.
Oughh! I hope you’re going to wash your hands.
I shrug and move and my fingers dramatically.
You got it out of a drainpipe?
Don’t worry, I already checked for spiders.
Is that fresh blood or printed on?
No comment.
You’re crazy. Put that in the laundry.
Full story. I saw something while walking back to my car. I didn’t say to myself, oh look at that. I just found myself staring at what seemed like deflated starfish tentacles stuck in a drainpipe. I pulled on it and discovered a glove. Most likely a post Halloween artifact. I pinched each glove finger and squeezed up and down the length to disable anything that might be tempted to bite me, then slipped it on. It was pleasingly strange. I don’t have anything like this. Not that I know what I would do it with it but surely something will come to mind. It’s not going to take up much space. I’ve picked up and carried home much more annoying items. I was keen to show my husband the full effect, but he wasn’t nearly as excited as I was.
I wonder who lost it? A teenager, a child? An adult? I doubt that little Hollywood Hills dead ender has much trick or treat action so probably someone on their way to or from a party. But surely it was lost on the street. Who picked it up and stuck it so purposely in the drainpipe? A do gooder who thought the owner would come back and find out. Sorry good Samaritan but not a likely scenario. Who would shorten the productive part of their day to haul ass to the neighborhood of a recent holiday party to search for a misplaced faux bloody spider fingers glove? So why pick it up out of the gutter? Or did they just think it looked cool, a little random local art installation. Did anyone else notice it, touch it, try it on? Would you?
Sidewalk Face 
Go. Wash. Your. Hands!!! Twice!!!!
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Two things. Of course! And this has obviously been outside in the sunshine for a days and days and days. Other than hidden spiders, I am sure it’s fine. But it is in the laundary.
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Only you!! Love it. xo Mary Trunk
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Thank you Mary! The conversations I have with Andy are an endless source of material.
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It does look kinda neat coming out of the drainpipe. Kinda creepy, too — like Pennywise left a bloody handkerchief.
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Thank you Dave! I hadn’t thought of it until now but imagine my surprise if it was actual blood. In that case I would not have tried it on and I would have reported it to the police. I actually didn’t even notice that it was printed to resemble blood splatters. I was too buy noticing the long ultra thin fingers. It’s very creepy and entertaining to see your own hand that way.
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I am usually accused of dragging creepy things home but I would have admired the glove as art and left it for you to find!
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Thank you Geoff! Next one you find give me the heads up and I’ll hustle over!
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You will get the right of first refusal!
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Oh, all those unanswered questions!
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Somethings we can never know!
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That is so random, lol. But I do share the same curiosity for items, or places, mostly for old things. Like when I enter a thousand-year-old temple, I always wonder, who else has touched these walls? What was their life like? How much change has this structure seen through the ages?
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Thank you Stuart. So happy you can relate. I never get the opportunity to touch a thousand year old wall. If I did I would have the same thoughts!
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