About Eelco and a bit about myself

To introduce ourselfs let me tell you all something about Eelco. Eelco is one of my best friends since 3 years or so. After selling him, and his wife Marloes, 5 cars in 1,5 year they asked me come and join their company IC&S. Since then we are doomed to work with each other on a daily basis and sometimes we do feel sorry for our collegues.It seems that we are a bit noisy when we are together.

We are always laughing and arguing a lot and our high testosterol level makes that we bet a lot on our capacities in knowledgement about cars or on our own sport efforts or whatever crosses our way. I have paid for one Japanees dinner so far and Eelco had to buy me 2 expensive dinners at the restaurant of the famous dutch cook Herman den Blijker and one at the Muscial Tarzan in Scheveningen. Stupid bets about where the ‘DSC’ button is in a BMW 530i E39 or who is going to win the next squash games between us. Like I said, many dumb but nice bets and challenges.We both squash 2 times a week, pretty fanatic. That’s also because of our high testosteron level; “Everybody may lose as long it isn’t me, and especially not from him”. We would rather be spitting blood then giving up.

Eelco is also my personal (not responding) helpdesk. He’s the one who can fix all of my computer screw-ups. As long as I am his sales, I’m paid to sell our services, not to fix my own e-mail account, back up or other strange stuff I know nothing about. Because I can be a bit lazy, Eelco will not always help me. But I have to admit, I don’t know anybody who has more knowledge about computer-related stuff than he does.

Besides this we talk a lot about cars. As a former car salesman it is obvious that I’m into cars. My favourite kind of car is BMW. I managed to make Marloes and Eelco even enthousiastic (for that time) about my brand and the optional possibilities of BMW. Eelco has also a weak spot about Ford Mustangs. Especially the Shelby, “the best car ever” like he is saying al the time. I’m more in to speed and exposure of cars. And we both love strange cars. Like the beautifull Cadlillac Seville STS or SLS. Wow, what a 3th braking light on the complete width of the car. Of course we like V8 engines better than the 6 cylinders. The sounds, the power, just terrific.

But we also do have a lot of differences. Like he is a father and I’m not. Like he is the boss at work and I’m not. Like he drives a 3-litre double turbo diesel engine and I’m moving myself in a 2,5 litre gasoline engine, like he has a lot of knowledge of technical stuff which I’m not interested in, and he doesn’t know anything about sports, like his wife picks out his clothes because he doesn’t know anything about fashion wich I do, like he is 2 meters and I’m 1,81 meter, his wife is blond, my girlfriend has brown hair (at the moment), and last but least he has been to the US many time while I have never been there before.