According to a news report, a certain private school in Washington was
recently faced with a unique problem. A number of 12-year-old girls were
beginning to use lipstick and would put it on in the bathroom. That was
fine, but after they put on their lipstick, they would press their lips on
the mirror leaving dozens of little lip prints.
Every night the maintenance man would remove them, and the next day the
girls would put them back. Finally the principal decided that something had
to be done. She called all the girls to the bathroom and met them there with
the maintenance man. She explained that all these lip prints were causing a
major problem for the custodian who had to clean the mirrors every night
(you can just imagine all the yawns from the little princesses). To
demonstrate how difficult it had been to clean the mirrors, she asked the
maintenance man to show the girls how much effort was required. He took out
a long-handled squeegee, dipped it in the toilet, and cleaned the mirror
with it.
Since then, there have been no lip prints on the mirror.
There are teachers .. and then there are educators.
