I Saved A Life...and took one too

On Friday, I got called into sub for a class whose substitute failed to show up. On the way to school, I noticed a little ole turtle working as hard as it could to cross the road. For a quick second, I thought, "Poor thing. I hope he makes it to where he's trying to go." Then I looked up, and saw a car coming straight toward it. Which led me to do the next thing--something, I would rarely do. I pulled over to the side of the road and picked that little turtle up by his shell. When I did, he tucked his head and feet in for safety. Then I safely put him on the other side of the road and told him to have a good day. I was a hero. I saved a life. Yes, some of you may be saying: "It's just a turtle, but hey, turtles are living creatures too and they deserve to live."
But now I must confess, that same day during lunch, there was a commotion coming from the children in my class. I went to investigate and one of the girls said, "There's a cockroach!". Okay, I hate cockroaches. Sorry, but I do. So when the children encouraged me to kill it, I took my foot up and hit him (he was crawling on the wall--YUCK. Don't cafeterias have ratings?). Well, he fell. End of life, or so I thought. A few seconds later, the children began yelling again, "he's alive, he's alive. He came back alive." I went to inspect. Sure enough, that thing was crawling up the wall again. So the children were once again saying, "Kill it." Which I did. This time squishing him. End of life, or so I thought. As I turned to walk away. One of the children said, it's magic. He's alive again. I was like, "What is this Rasputin the cockroach? (if ya'll don't know the story of the Rasputin, and the many attempts to kill him off, you should definitely do a search and read up on it, talk about 9 lives! I love the story, very interesting person in Russian history.) Finally, I put that thing out of it's misery. He was dead! I made sure of it. Some of you may say, "but,it's a living creature, it should deserve to live. Sorry, but a hero can only do so much in one day!"