A newspaper report says a private school in Washington recently ran into an unusual problem.
A few of the 12-year-old girls had started wearing lipstick and putting it on in the restrooms.
That was fine, but after applying it, they pressed their lips to the mirror and left dozens of tiny lip prints behind.
Every evening, the janitor scrubbed the prints away, and every morning the girls made sure the mirror was covered again.
In the end, the headmistress decided something had to be done.
She gathered all the girls in the restroom and waited there with the janitor.
She explained that the lip prints were a big problem for him, since he had to clean every mirror each evening.
To show them how hard the job really was, she asked the janitor to demonstrate.
He picked up a long-handled squeegee, dipped it deep into the toilet, and used it to wipe the mirror.
Since then, there hasn’t been a single lip print on the mirror.
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