I ran into a similar situation on my way by Akins HS. I pumped my fist at them as I slowly drove by and got some positive feedback. Cops were monitoring but not causing any issues. The kids were enthusiastic but not violent. Good for them!
Just finished Book 7. Now I'm going to like a heroin addict until 8 comes out in May. Fantastic series and Jeff Hays is a fucking genius. So many genuine LOLs.
My wife went to Milwaukee for her Moms 75th birthday to surprise her. First flight back to Austin got cancelled on Sunday after she boarded. She rescheduled for Monday. Got to the airport on Monday and her first flight was on time but her DFW to Austin second leg was delayed 6 hours. She smelled a cancellation coming and didn't want to get stuck in DFW so she rescheduled for Tuesday. She was kind of right, but as fate would have it, her flight that she would have been on arrived 3 hours late but it got there. The other flights were all cancelled so that was just bad luck. Now for the stupid part. Booked the same flight on Tuesday, so Milwaukee to DFW, DFW to Austin. Exact same times. Got to DFW on time and then lost her goddamned mind. Got to the first gate that said Austin and hunkered down. Didn't bother to look at time or flight number. Like there's not 20 DFW to Austin flights a day. I'm looking at the SWA app to track her for pickup and see that her flight is boarding. Then I get a text saying they are delayed and won't start boarding for an hour. I push back and say "App says the flight is boarding". "They lie" she says. Then gives me the flight number for the gate she's at. I point out that that's not the flight number for the itinerary she gave me. She then, finally, looks at her boarding pass and see's the flight number. Too late. Missed her flight and had to book on to the one she was waiting for in error. Luckily no issues there, but she got in an hour later than expected. After all the shit she went through she managed to fuck up the last leg and is lucky she didn't totally fuck herself. I'm just glad she got home, but damn.
The point is that the lesson from the story is the same whether it happened (it didn't, there was no big boat full of animals and the whole world didn't die) or not. It's a story do demonstrate that obedience to God's will, no matter how stupid the request, will be rewarded.