Most kids love to explore, question, and investigate things. One sixth-grader displayed her sharp detective skills with a note she left on a car that had been hit by her school bus. When the car owner, Andrew Sipowicz, found this note on his 2012 Red Ford Mustang, his anger took the shape of laughter, reported CNN.
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In November 2018, Andrew was a student and college baseball player at Canisius College, Buffalo, New York. One day, as he walked to his car parked near his house, he found a mysterious note taped to his car. Awed by the note, he took to X and shared photos of his dented car and the note. The post got quickly shared over social media and currently has over 995,000 likes and nearly 220,000 comments.
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The anonymous note signed as “by the 6th grader at Houghten Academy” read, “If you’re wondering what happened to your car, Bus: 499 hit your car. It stops here every day to drop me off at 5:00 p.m. What happened? She was trying to pull off and hit the car. She hit and run. She tried to veer over and squeeze through, but couldn't. She actually squeezed through. She made a dent and I saw what happened.” The note writer ended the note with an apology, “Sorry.”
At the bottom of the note, the young detective revealed that the bus was a Buffalo Public School bus. She also drew a cute bus doodle, tagging it as “the bus that hit your car” with kids peeking through the bus window. Andrew said that he immensely liked this drawing, adding that he felt his “mood went from angered to more relaxed” after he read the note.
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Following up, Andrew called the bus company, “First Student,” and spoke to a representative. The company confirmed in a statement to CNN that the car’s insurance process was in progress. “We will cover the full cost of the repair to his vehicle as well as a loaner while his car is in the shop,” the company officials said, adding that the bus driver in question would be terminated.
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Andrew also reached out to a teacher from the Buffalo PS 69 Houghton Academy who immediately recognized the handwriting in the note. Kevin Garcia, vice principal of the school, told CNN affiliate WKBW, that the school would celebrate the student’s “outstanding leadership” by presenting the child with a citizenship award. In an update on X, Andrew wrote that he was grateful to the “sixth grader.” "The student who wrote the letter has been found,” he wrote, “and we're in the process of finding a way to reward her for her actions. Very grateful for what she did.”
Although the sixth grader's name was not revealed to the public, she became a hero among people. Talking about her, @Itadowler said, “A journalist in the making. How adorable.” @katiephang quipped, “Quick! Someone hire this kid to run the United States!”
Many people loved the bus doodle and commented about it. @depazz_ compared the doodle artist with “Picasso.” @bentosmd called it similar to “Perry the Platypus.” @dimaismadduh shared their own similar experience of reading a note left by the witness of a hit-and-run driver.
Later on, Andrew revealed that he was planning to meet the girl, and possibly give her an early Christmas present for her good deed, reported Sinclair Broadcast Group. "I'm looking into going to meet her in person next week and thank her for what she did," he said.
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Will your current friends still be with you after seven years?
Professor shares how many years a friendship must last before it'll become lifelong
Think of your best friend. How long have you known them? Growing up, children make friends and say they’ll be best friends forever. That’s where “BFF” came from, for crying out loud. But is the concept of the lifelong friend real? If so, how many years of friendship will have to bloom before a friendship goes the distance? Well, a Dutch study may have the answer to that last question.
Sociologist Gerald Mollenhorst and his team in the Netherlands did extensive research on friendships and made some interesting findings in his surveys and studies. Mollenhorst found that over half of your friendships will “shed” within seven years. However, the relationships that go past the seven-year mark tend to last. This led to the prevailing theory that most friendships lasting more than seven years would endure throughout a person’s lifetime.
In Mollenhorst’s findings, lifelong friendships seem to come down to one thing: reciprocal effort. The primary reason so many friendships form and fade within seven-year cycles has much to do with a person’s ages and life stages. A lot of people lose touch with elementary and high school friends because so many leave home to attend college. Work friends change when someone gets promoted or finds a better job in a different state. Some friends get married and have children, reducing one-on-one time together, and thus a friendship fades. It’s easy to lose friends, but naturally harder to keep them when you’re no longer in proximity.
Some people on Reddit even wonder if lifelong friendships are actually real or just a romanticized thought nowadays. However, older commenters showed that lifelong friendship is still possible:
“I met my friend on the first day of kindergarten. Maybe not the very first day, but within the first week. We were texting each other stupid memes just yesterday. This year we’ll both celebrate our 58th birthdays.”
“My oldest friend and I met when she was just 5 and I was 9. Next-door neighbors. We're now both over 60 and still talk weekly and visit at least twice a year.”
“I’m 55. I’ve just spent a weekend with friends I met 24 and 32 years ago respectively. I’m also still in touch with my penpal in the States. I was 15 when we started writing to each other.”
“My friends (3 of them) go back to my college days in my 20’s that I still talk to a minimum of once a week. I'm in my early 60s now.”
“We ebb and flow. Sometimes many years will pass as we go through different things and phases. Nobody gets buttsore if we aren’t in touch all the time. In our 50s we don’t try and argue or be petty like we did before. But I love them. I don’t need a weekly lunch to know that. I could make a call right now if I needed something. Same with them.”
Maintaining a friendship for life is never guaranteed, but there are ways, psychotherapists say, that can make a friendship last. It’s not easy, but for a friendship to last, both participants need to make room for patience and place greater weight on their similarities than on the differences that may develop over time. Along with that, it’s helpful to be tolerant of large distances and gaps of time between visits, too. It’s not easy, and it requires both people involved to be equally invested to keep the friendship alive and from becoming stagnant.
As tough as it sounds, it is still possible. You may be a fortunate person who can name several friends you’ve kept for over seven years or over seventy years. But if you’re not, every new friendship you make has the same chance and potential of being lifelong.