According to a news report, a certain private school
in Victoria 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.....