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It was about a week after moving into my new apartment when I noticed the large spider living in my bathroom. She appeared shortly after I moved in, and at our first meeting I tried to flush her down the drain. However she escaped into some shelving and cleverly decided to lay low for some weeks. Not long ago, she reappeared dangling across the mirror while I was brushing my teeth. "Oh, it's you again, is it?" I asked. She cleaned her fangs with her front two legs. "You understand that I'm a human. I'm bigger than you: I could kill you." She considered me with her eight eyes before scuttling off to the corner, leaving me to feel big and tough for threatening something the size of a toenail. This has continued for some time. I'll be in the bathroom and the spider will appear and clean her face while I brush my teeth. When we're finished, I'll go back to my bedroom and she goes back to her hole in the wall. However, I've been noticing that she's getting smaller: her legs are thinner and she's moving more slowly. I suspect this may be due to the lack of flies in my bathroom. Last night I was in the garden when I saw a large black fly ambling across the table top. I placed a glass over it and shook it around, stunning it. Then I took the fly inside and dropped it in front of the spiders hole in the wall. Brushing my teeth this morning I noticed the spider was late. Just before I finished my morning prep routine, she came lumbering up onto the mirror and sat there, licking her lips. "You're late" I pointed out. She shrugged. I shrugged back. "Well, see you later" I said, and left to make myself breakfast
before work.
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