The

phrase, the idea of, "re-booting a bus" is not one that, even at my most stochastic, I could arrive at. & yet.....

I'm in Sydney, using public transport some of the time. No cash sales on the bus, pre-paid tickets from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. coming out of the city. Ticket scanner goes down, won't accept tickets, milling throngs around the driver. He just tells everybody to sit down sans scan.

Then, out of the city center, he turns the bus off. No lights, no cctv. Darkness. Driver says nothing. You can almost see the combined question mark forming above the heads of the passengers. Then the driver turns the bus back on. Re-booted it in other words. Lights, camera, action. Ticket scanner now working.