Fiction

Lateral Wording

"What's the opposite of boot?"

"Sandal?"

"No, entirely different --"

"Hat!“

"Nooo, what you do with a computer."

"Oh. Um. Crash?"

"I'd think that's something the computer does... I mean what you do before switching it off normally,
anyway."

"I think that's 'shut down'."

"That's all?"

"Can't think of anything else."

"Bah. Thanks, anyway."