Charley Allen’s latest column takes a comedic look at the group of Spanish mothers taking off their kit to save the school bus.
Calendar Girls seems to have inspired Spanish mums to bare all in an attempt to save their children’s school bus. In December last year, authorities in the region of Montserrat decided that in order to save money they would be restricting the school bus service.
The normal Spanish thing to do to kick up a fuss would be to go out in protest, waving banners and getting rowdy but these Montserrat mums thought they would try a different approach: a topless calendar, naturally.
Montserrat near Valencia, which is one of the country’s largest cities, has a population of around 7,000 and has felt the effects of the crisis particularly badly according to Reuters. Along with Cataluña which is just North of Montserrat, the two areas are the most indebted in the country and harsh cutbacks have had to be made, the limited bus service being one of them.
However, mothers such as Eva Maria Casas Sancho, the calendar’s Ms. June, whose children were forced to walk almost 3 miles to their elementary school, is not happy according to NRP. “There’s no sidewalk and there are lots of trucks going fast. The truth is, it’s pretty dangerous for kids to be walking there.”
This risqué move to do the calendar has certainly paid off though; sales have raised enough to keep the bus going until the end of June and considering that the Associated Press reports about $4,100 is needed to fund the bus, driver and monitor for a month, they must have sold an awful lot.
It is a pretty outrageous move and although it is obviously great to keep the much-needed bus service alive, I can’t help but feel sorry for the kid whose mum becomes an instant hit amongst his schoolmates for being an absolute MILF, or on the other (slightly worse) hand, the kid whose mum’s breasts sweep the floor… eek.
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