Órale, the Caló onda this week is the verb arrear. It comes from the Spanish word for mule team driver, arrero, which was a brutish but well-known trade in Spanish colonial times. Arreros made their living driving the wagons that hauled goods from the provincial capitals to the outlying villages in the countryside, often days and weeks away. As the work was hard and perilous, so too were the men who arreaban those wagons. Out of that harsh experience, came many sayings and words. There are two primary nuances to arrear in Caló. One is what an arrero would yell to drive the mules through a muddy river crossing or up a steep hill. The other nuance is that of the action of driving a mule team, arrear, which many in the world of Caló today use to say they’re driving a car. We’ll focus on the later nuance in this episode and go back to the other, more colorful one in the next episode.