“When I paint a picture on my easel, I want to be able to take the finished canvas down afterwards and frame it. Or take it to a friend’s house to show them. Or roll it up and mail it to someone as a gift. I think I’d really like an easel that lets me do that.”
“Sure thing! This easel comes with a highly-trained vulture. When you are done with the painting, you hand the easel to the vulture, who carries it back to our lab– where we can extract the painting from the easel, and then have the vulture bring them both back to you, allowing you total access to your finished painting to do whatever you like with it!”
“A vulture? Why not just let me take the painting off the easel myself?”
“Ha, what year do you think it is? Nobody wants to go to all that trouble anymore! It’s so much easier to just have your friendly trained vulture pick up the easel and go!”
“But I don’t like that method. I’ve tried it before. Sometimes the vulture refuses to take it. Or the vulture gets sick, or the weather’s so bad he can’t fly–”
“Ahh, that was first-generation vultures. Thing of the past. I promise you all our modern vultures are perfectly streamlined for today’s world, unstoppable.”
“I’d still rather not have to rely on them. I can’t imagine they’re prepared for all possible situations. What if something happens to your lab? …Or what if you suddenly decide to cancel this contract that you are so very eagerly shoving in my face right now?”
“The contract is important! It allows us to keep an eye on everything you paint, just in case something goes wrong that we can help with!”
“I…. don’t really want someone watching everything I paint?”
“Hmm. Concerning. Might need to report you.”