Submitted by Marilyn Schwing
Lipstick at school
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....
