Dept. of Make Your Own Fun

At lunch we were down the block from ACT theatre, and kept hearing this youthful cheering. We didn't remember a stadium being built at 7th and Union, so we walked up the street to see where it was coming from. A few hundred school kids were standing on the sidewalk outside ACT, making "honk your horn" gestures at trucks--and cars and any other horned conveyance--passing by. Whenever someone tootled at them in return, a roar went up from the kids. They were still at it as we headed in to lunch. We wonder if they were heading to something at ACT, and, if so, if the performers realized they had to out-do the thrill of people willing to honk for kids on a sidewalk.