senor canas hombre de la gente

Here’s a story of ‘what you look like isn’t how you think like’ and genuinely leveraging a shared passion.

”Twinkles there’s the elitist corporate luminatti (El Lefe) visiting their rank and file, (La Gente.) Sometimes Jefe really care, sometimes its nothing more than a photo opp. La Gente can smell the difference. It takes real skill, real effort, real genuine to build bridges across classes, across cultures.”

Other times it comes naturally. In our case it was my cute, Dad’s love of futbol. He abandoned me to go to futbol match with our buddy, Hernan. Said something about ‘Medellin El Classico’ a battle between Medellin’s two biggest teams who happen to share the same stadium.

Only way Dad gets in to this ‘Holy Event’ is if he’s accompanied by Colombiano. When he came home I asked him how was it?

“Dog, it was an unbridled frenzy of emotion start to finish, great game. Gracia dios, we won. Your Dad was like a grey-haired color analyst, consistently pointing out strategies, predicting what would happen next.”

“About mid-way thru, a girl behind Hernan and I patted me on the back and said, (in Spanish) ‘Gringo know more about futbol than us. We like this Gringo. He Man of the People.’”

Yup, I do the cute, Dad does the Hombre de Gente. A powerful combo.

”Effort to be likeable, effort to be genuine.”