Cockroaches can probably swim the English channel

I'm not worried or squirmy about insects or creepy crawlies however I've just chased a rather large cockroach around my bathroom, this reminded me of my last trip to Thailand.

I was staying in a lovely beachside 'hut' in a great resort, came home a tad tipsy from a night out, did the usual ablutions then climbed into bed and went straight to sleep, after a few hours I woke up and realised I needed a wee so off I went to my bathroom.
I did put the light on in my bedroom so it shined in through the open bathroom door as I went about my business ..... I felt something tickle my shoulder (perhaps you can guess where this is going) in my half sleep I shrugged my shoulder, I then had long shoulder length hair so presumed that's what it was ..... but then when the tickle actually moved towards the centre of my back and down my spine I realised it probably wasn't. I was mid flow and although I do my Kegal exercises on a regular basis the rather heavy night of drinking had taken it's toll and my bladder was not stopping for anyone or anything, so I upped the pressure and powered on through!
All the while (it was probably only 10 secs but it felt like a very long 10 secs) feeling SOMETHING crawling back UP my back (which did seem better somehow than down) THEN horrors, I couldn't feel it, was IT in my long curly hair?

Then it crawled across my other shoulder, now at this point I'd finished on the loo so with a wriggle leapt from the loo throwing my shoulder downwards and flicked off the most HUGE cockroach I have ever seen to the floor, it was probably the president of the Cockroach nation, it was so large there was no way I could let it just run free, it might come back with a knife and fork and have me for a midnight snack (well I do taste good!).
But of course I had nothing to catch or kill it with apart from my bare feet and naked body, hmmmmm no thanks.

So I grabbed the shower attachment and started spraying it, well it was hardly a power shower my wee had been 4 times as powerful I suspect, but eventually I corned it, it would not die from water alone of course, so I scooped it up with a plastic cup and threw it in the handy water tub and there it quite happily started to swim around....... hmm well that wouldn't do, the monster would climb straight out as soon as I went to bed I'm sure!

So I got another cup and put that on top of it, weighed that cup down with a heavy table ornament and it was trapped in an inverted cup half full of water and surely would have to give up swimming eventually and then drown.......... right???

I went and had the longest cleansing shower ever and then tried to go back to sleep.

In the morning it was still swimming, 8 hours of swimming. So I did the only thing left to do, I went to breakfast and when I got back the room had been cleaned and there was no sign of the cockroach.
I went off and bought a can of Baygon to sit in the bathroom that day though.