How stupid are we?

I am sure we all have asked ourselves that question at one time or another. Usually right we have said or done something that was pretty dumb. Okay for those of you asking, this is where I am going with this.

I received the mangled mess of glossy advertisements today in the mail. They arrive every Wednesday just like clock work. Pizza coupons, Arby,s(I sometimes use those), the usual. I happened to notice the advertisement for Family Dollar. With the holiday approaching, Independence Day, (see previous post) I saw that they were advertising a charcoal grill for twelve dollars. It looked like, well, a twelve dollar grill. The picture showed the grill with three burgers and four hot dogs. At the bottom of the picture in fine print it read, "food not included."

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Are we as a society that stupid, do we need to be told that? I know that all of you are thinking of a similar situation that you have seen or heard. And as a person that once owned a business and had to do some advertising, I bet I know why they put that disclaimer on the ad. Somewhere a person walked in and purchased an item, not necessarily a grill, but the ad showed food in the picture, and they asked where was the food.
Like someone walked into Walmart and bought a frying pan and got home and was mad because the two over easy eggs, that were pictured in the pan on the outside of the box, were not in the pan! It happened, I bet it did.
So that being the case I guess society is that stupid, wow. I would love to have been the guy in the store that day when it happened. We have all had those moments when we get that incredibly stupid question lobbed to us.
Jonathan Brooks and my self were cooking pigs one time for a fraternity function. As the time approached to flip the hogs we opened the lid and got some help. One of the helpers stared at the pig lying skin side down spread out on the cooker, and then it happened. "Brooks is that a whole pig or a half a pig?" The look on his face was priceless, I gave him the look of, yes he just said that. Jonathan took a moment, "No (the person will remain nameless), a whole pig has eight legs."
Caption under that story *brains not included