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From the files of Huck Finn, a somewhat perceptive gentleman from
the midwest...

According to a news report, a certain private parochial school was
recently 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 provided it was of a natural or neutral skin tone, 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, Sister Mary Margaret, 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.

(You can just imagine the yawns from the little princesses.)

To demonstrate how difficult it had been to clean the mirrors, Sister
Paschal 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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