From the beginning of the week, we were getting delicate signs that Radim escaped his prisoners. In the night, Štěpán heard scratching the window, and then he swore that he had seen Radim's shadow. Then near our office in the CoRE building, there was a poster. It was saying: "Equal opportunity in education." When we looked closer under some letters was written: "Help me guys, I am starving, Radim."
The note could be fake, but we decided to trust it. We had this really old watermelon, and we were thinking about throwing it out, so we just left it in the office. And it worked! The next day, there wasn't any rotten watermelon.
The rest of the week, we were talking with Radim in a very secure way. (It wasn't easy, we were also hunted by angry cleaning ladies, they say our offices are messy) We did our insanity workout, but our moves followed simple rules that allowed us to transfer about 1 megabyte of data for each exercise. Radim was watching us from a secret location.
In the night, he was knocking morse code on our walls. We tried to convince him to add us as his Facebook friends, but his Facebook is mostly for picking up girls. He does not want to have some weirdos in his friends, he didn't accept our friend requests yet, but we will convince him.
From the conversation, we learned that Radim has made some progress with solving the group isomorphism problem. He had a time for thinking while he was tortured. We agreed with Radim that we will meet him on Saturday in New York City.
After previous weekends we decided that this week, the group with all our proofs will be truly random. We went to New York and wandered around. We walked in Central Park (Hey, New Yorkers reading this, you have fat squirrels, you should do something about it, I heard they are tasty.), Then downtown. The view was beautiful, but the meeting time with Radim was approaching.
The meeting point was the Statue of Liberty. We kinda knew where Statue is, but nobody told us that it is on the island. We got to downtown Manhattan and suddenly, sea. That was a problem, but we weren't desperate, yet.
There was some building with the sign "Ferry" on it, so we, as good Czechs, asked about the price of the ticket. We were elated that ticked was free, so we boarded immediately. Yea, we were pretty excited... Maybe too much. Maybe, we should have asked where is ferry sailing before boarding.
We learned our lesson about ten minutes later, when we were passing by Liberty island. If you are from New York, you probably know that we were sailing for about thirty minutes to Staten Island.
Actually, you probably don't know this, because who in the right mind would go to Staten Island?
We were there, so we decided to be irrational and take a stroll. There was nothing much interesting around.
With Radim, we planned everything. The plan for this case (case 34: Missed meeting because of confusion from New York public transportation) was to go to Brooklin through Brooklin bridge in the night and then do our spy thing (insanity workout).
Meanwhile, we ate in the best restaurant of its kind in downtown Manhattan... It was cheap though... maybe because the kind of restaurant we went to was McDonald's and it was only a 3.5-star rating among 3.3-star rating Macs.
In Brooklyn, because of Štěpán's dirty tricks, it was me who must do the workout. We told Radim that we will meet in Boston because we had some tickets to Boston. Actually, we bought them only to confuse enemies, but maybe they thought so, and we will outsmart them.
The tickets were bought for 3am, Sunday. We had some time in Brooklyn, so we decided to be lost for a while. The plan went really well. We made it till 3am, only because we were running all the way from Brooklyn Bridge to Madison Square Garden.
At 7am, we were in the morning Boston. It was nice, so we took a nap in a park. But we had to found F, U-streets. This was really difficult. First of all, we thought that Radim just censored the name of the street. From the looks of the people we asked about the uncensored version, we deduced that this street is probably not in Boston.
All desperate, we discovered the freedom trail. It was perfect. We learned many interesting things about Boston and generally about American history. Too bad for Janča who refused to visit any "historical" site if it isn't at least 500 years old. Yes, she is a spoiled European.
In the night when we were wandering aimlessly around Broadway (in Boston), we found F-street. And there was Radim. He told us his proofs, and then everybody went his own way. We cannot be with Radim for too long proof stealers will use it.
So, after we got the proofs, at 3am, Monday, we went to NYC by bus and then to New Brunswick. Štěpán and Janča even made it to the meeting with our advisor. We were a bit tired, but happy we at least got something which looks like a proof. The biggest challenge on Monday was not to fall asleep during the lecture. I failed it miserably... but with delight!
