What you need, madam, is an aircraft carrier

Posted September 16, 2026

A woman walks into a dealership1, goes up to a salesman.

– I need to rent a vehicle. I’m looking to transport roughly four thousand souls and lots of vehicles, including airplanes. We’ll be gone for months on end, we’ll move to and from the continent several times. We’ll need autonomy, entertainment, comfort, everything.

– I have just the thing! What you need, madam, is an aircraft carrier! Spacious, fast, lots of commodities! Nimitz class! It’s the best you can get.

Said woman gets the deal, walks off with just what she needed.

A second woman walks in later.

– I’m planning a business trip and I need to rent a vehicle. It’s three days, there will be two of us, we won’t be going very far, it’s a few towns over.

– I have just the thing! What you need, madam, is an aircraft carrier! There’s certainly room enough for two, it’ll get you there eventually, it has lots of commodities! Nimitz class! It’s the best you can get.

– Is it good… on land? It’s really not that far. I could use something smaller. I don’t want to travel to and from port. I have a feeling something smaller might be way more efficient, just for my purpose?

– It’s what we sell to everone else. You don’t want to get left behind, do you?

Footnotes

  1. You know, a dealership. A very real thing – very precise. Why not start a metaphor by making it immediately tortured?