______Not Included

I'm used to buying things that require batteries (not included) - which is why we have a drawer full of batteries in different shapes and sizes. I just received a Kindle e-reader for my birthday that did not have any books included (althought I downloaded lots of free ones from the website), my cell phone functioned, but I had to buy a case for it. Last night takes the cake though. We were hanging a tin ceiling in the apartment house, and since Mike had broken his chalk line earlier this year, he stopped and bought one. He came to the house, and asked me if I knew where his bottle of chalk was......HHUUUUHHH? How can you buy a chalk line, but the chalk is not included? That one makes no sense to me. So off I run to the hardware store for chalk while Mike begins his figuring on how to lay out these tiles. So, I picked the color I liked (red) and mumbled about it the rest of the night. By the way, we got about 3/4 of the ceiling up and it looks great.