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Life's Lessons"

Some lessons are easier to learn than others.

According to a news report, a certain private school in

Washington 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...