Spoon in the washing up always soaks me.. Why?

When I do the washing up, I will turn on the tap and more often than not the water will fall onto an upturned spoon and the water will spray up and soak me. This is very annoying but what I don't understand is the unnatural frequency of this occurrence. It seems to me that for this to happen the spoon needs to be in exactly the right place under that tap and so should be a relatively rare phenomenon. But it happens all the time. Whats going on?