Roach Trap

Waking up this morning I looked up and saw a brown spot on the mosquito net. At first I thought it was the ring to the net, or some such thing, even a moth, that would've been alright. I slipped on my glasses and looked again. With reality in focus I came to understand that it was a 2 inch long roach. Not only that but it was on the INSIDE of the net, dangling above Khaled's sleeping midsection!! It appeared to be having trouble moving around on the net, it's legs were sticking to the net material. I woke Khaled and we discussed our predicament.
Since it was located on the ceiling part of the net there was no way to squish it between two shoes, because we couldn't get a shoe over the top part of the net. Besides, that would be a big mess to clean off the net. We also feared trying to dislodge it and then squash it, as that plan would involve the roach landing on the bed and we would end up with roach goo on our sheets. Finally Khaled had a moment of brilliance. He went and got a long large graduated cylinder that we use for our 'Science on Wheels' experiments. He stuck the open end over the roach and tapped the net until the roach fell into the cylinder, which he promptly covered with a flip-flop. The roach didn't move much, or really try to get away, maybe it was old. Khaled then took his roach container outside to the sweet potato field and dumped it out while I fried breadfruit for breakfast. That was my morning.