The Gift That Made Me Blush

Sometimes it is difficult to determine age-limits or maturity-levels when choosing gifts for preteens. For some items, however, it should be pretty obvious that it is just not something appropriate to give to a twelve-year-old.

At the age of twelve I had been involved with the music department at my school for three years. My whole family is very musical and my very non-musical grandmother tries very hard to be involved with all of the concerts and activities that we do. Working my way through my gifts from her that Christmas, I was shocked as I ripped the paper of one away to reveal this book:



Just to, uh, point out what seems to be obvious to me: the two glaring aspects of the cover that would set off alarm bells that this is probably not the best gift for a twelve-year-old...
1. The title includes "SEX" and "DRUGS"
2. The characters in the artwork are missing something rather important: some clothes

In my grandmother's case she probably only saw "Mozart," and knowing that I play an instrument and like to read, figured that this would be a nice present. In any case, it is so important to glance over covers and packaging to make sure it really is exactly what you think it is.