Lipstick at School
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.
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.
