A secondary school in the USA was fighting a losing battle with its teenage girls.  All were extremely focused on their appearance, as most teenage girls are. One consequence of this was that, at every break time, girls would go into the restroom  areas and check their make up and lipstick. This had developed into ‘testing their pout’ by pressing their made up lips against the restroom mirrors.

The result, as you can imagine, became a nightmare for the caretaker to clean.  The caretaker protested to the Head, who explained the problem to the girls.  But the problem continued….so the Head sat down to think about it.

Finally, she called all the girls to the largest restroom, and once more exhorted the girls to stop themirror kissing behaviour…..but now followed it up with a demonstration of how difficult it was to clean the mirrors.   The Head turned to Joe, the caretaker: