Lance on dad John Gokongwei: Why he always had food in his pocket and loved to fly cheap

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Another story Auntie Pacita told us is about how she would take a calesa ride home from school every day for 10 centavos.

Dad didn’t want to pay for his own calesa ride so he asked Auntie Pacita if he could share a ride with her. Sure, said Auntie Pacita, but said they would have to split the fare. However, whenever theand walk the rest of the way home. That meant he didn’t have to pay for his half of theThese last few weeks must’ve been the hardest ones of all for Dad.

Another thing I remember about traveling with Dad during my younger days is having to share a hotel room with him. The problem is Dad snored really LOUD . In my case, I didn’t put up with it. So I walked out… out of the bedroom and into the bathroom where I spent the night sleeping in the bathtub. Over the last few weeks, whenever I visited Dad in the hospital, the larger than life man looked so small in his hospital bed, and he knew it. That’s why he kept shooing us away from the hospital as soon as we arrived. Even if we had spent two hours in traffic getting to the hospital, he was shooing us away after two minutes.

But it wasn’t always about work. While we were growing up, Dad worked very hard six days a week, many hours a day. But he always made sure that when we sat down for dinner at 7:30 p.m. after a long school day, he was there to join us after a long workday as well. Some days he had to leave after dinner to go back to the office or to go to another meeting, but at dinnertime, he was there with us.

Till today, I think Dad was most successful with businesses that catered to the every man, the common man, because that’s who he was himself.

 

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