At a High School in Wilmington, Delaware they were experiencing a bit of a problem with the actions of some of the girls.
A number of 16-year-old girls had started to wear lipstick and they would put it on in the girls’ bathroom.
They’d all congregate around the bathroom mirror applying their lipstick of choice and then as they completed the task, they’d kiss the mirror leaving a perfect imprint of their lips for all to see.
Well, needless to say, there were so many lipstick marks that it was all getting a bit messy, to say the least.
More importantly, the janitor was getting fed up with having to clean the mirrors at the end of each day, given the lipstick marks were quite hard to remove.
So naturally, the janitor complained to the Principal.
Now the Principal was a wily old girl in her 50s who’d been around the block more than a few times and she knew how to get her students to behave.
One morning she marched into the girls’ bathroom when she knew the girls would be applying their lipstick. In her hand, she was holding a long-handled squeegee.
“Ladies,” said the Principal. “The janitor has complained about the mess you’re making of the mirrors. Allow me to demonstrate what the poor man has to do to get them clean.”
With that, she took the squeegee and dipped it into the toilet. She made sure the squeegee was suitably wet and then she proceeded to wipe the mirrors clean.
Since then there haven’t been any lipstick marks on the mirror.
Moral Story:
There are teachers and then there are educators.
