According to a news report, a certain private school in Washington 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, 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 (you can just imagine the yawns from the little princesses).
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


Sharon

Still funny, but a very very old joke - used by teachers throughout the years. I've heard is many a time used as a teacher's own experience!!!!!

Rudi

Brilliant, I'll have to try that with my daughter (13) who has just started wearing makeup and seems to get it on the bathroom mirror all the time. How, I mean how does she do that, she's putting it on with enthusiasm (though not skill) but I still can't see how she misses her face and gets the mirror instead!

Is it me?

M

love it

Mine aren't old enough for make-up yet (apart from a few dressing up games with kiddy play stuff) but I have often asked myself how come the bathroom mirror is always full of white toothpaste spatters.

I used to run my own fine-dining restaurant in Melbourne... and what I used to hate was those women folding our white damask napkins and pressing their 'lipsticked' lips onto the napkin. It was a nightmare getting the lipstick out.

By the way, why do women press their lips on tissues, napkins etc. Is it to soak up excess lipstick, dry their lips or what ??

Do you mean just after applying our lipstick or do you mean wiping up dribbles on fancy restaurant linen ?

I think it is just after applying the lippy. I thought one would go to the rest rooms to put lippy on and use the paper towels...but then I'm just a guy !

So would I.

I have never applied lipstick whilst still sitting at a restaurant table and I wouldn't dream of deliberately then dabbing my lips on somebody else's linen.

I don't care if somebody has a diamond encrusted gold Channel mirror compact or similar. I think it's rude and unecessary.

It's to blot the lipstick. If you take off the excess, then reapply a second coat, it stays on longer.

A single ply tissue is sufficient though, just bad manners to use a reusable napkin.

Thanks...I knew there would be a logical reason.

Im also in hospitality.Lipstick on glasses is a pain and unsightly.If you wear bright lipstick and just about to have a sip you have to very delicately lick the rim of your glass and then take a sip.note the word delicately.

Ha...I noticed that with some lady diners and friends...so now I know why they gently lick the rim of their glasses. Well you live and learn !

double ha,all these years you thought they were flirting with you.

Naah, Macsot would never be that deluded.


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