I checked under the sink. Sure enough, tucked behind a bottle of shampoo, was a small mesh bag filled with colorful, scented bath beads—including bright green ones identical to the object on the floor.
The mystery was solved.
But the question remained: how did it get there?
The Most Likely Explanation (What Probably Happened)
After some detective work, we pieced together the most likely scenario.
My youngest daughter had been playing in the bathroom earlier that evening. She had pulled out the bag of bath beads, examined them, and dropped one. She'd meant to pick it up, but got distracted by something else (probably a cartoon).
I'd walked in, seen the green object, and my brain had filled in the gaps with the most alarming possibilities—parasite, alien, drain monster—when the real answer was much simpler.
A bath bead.
A child.
A distraction.
That's it.