Lipstick
According to a news report, a certain private school in
Washington recently was 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 to
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.
Several memos were posted about this.
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.
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.
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