This weekend I was browsing through the local hardware store junkmail and came across an item we'd be interested in. It's one of those marquee roof type tent setups that protect a car from the sun, bird droppings, bat droppings (and believe me, the birds and bats in this area drop some pretty impressive paint-corroding cluster bombs.) So, said junkmail had a pic of one of these canopies, complete with car parked under it so you knew what it did. All for the bargain price of $129.

You know what caught my eye? In the asterisk conditions it said - I kid you not - "car not included."

Car not included?!

Car not included?!?!

That rates right up there with the ad for work trestle with a pic of two said trestles and a plank of wood resting on them so you knew what you could use them for. The asterisk caption? You guessed it: "plank not included."

Have we really devolved to the point where we're a "serving suggestion" generation and really can't tell what is actually for sale? Guess we have.

Some times you've just gotta shake your head ruefully and chuckle.