Quick goodbyes around lunchtime (everyone skips the last lunch, the trip is long, or maybe we got the lunch packs which weren't much), not much in way of courses, just brief recaps. Everybody knows that assembler is highly unlikely to be used by any of us, we all got Cobol, Fortran, Basic and Pascal available already. But just in case, the knowledge was not wasted - I used it later to perform some neat tricks, specially the getKey() routine for solitaire, Vaha basic version.
The guy from textile oour was now my travel mate. He was surprisingly old for a programmer at the time - he can't possibly be from that first team who worked on bank's CER - and who knows whether he really was a programmer, or just knew stuff here and there and got this voucher as some kind of vacation. We did call him "a pre-war programmer".
We helped this girl pack and upon parting she just shook hands with him and then kissed me on the cheek, I guess for gentlemanly behavior.
We got on the buses to Ljubljana and there we quickly went to the train station to see if there's any available train. The next one to Belgrade was scheduled for a couple of hours later, but it was probably sold to local trips - or to Bosnians who'd disembark anywhere between Zagreb and Slavonski Brod and head south. But, ha! There's an extra train on the track, going straight to Belgrade, leaving in ten minutes. Of course we hopped on it and the seats and the tickets will take care of themselves along the way. Which worked swimmingly, except we didn't eat anything. This guy had the solution: he had a liter of loza of 63% (vol). Which is crazy, but worked. We took a swig every 20-30 minutes, didn't get hungry, didn't get drunk. A small miracle.
6-III-2020 - 29-XI-2025