Mascot don’t talk but lots of them are manic twitterers, and one of them, Little Jake, likes to send emails w/ pics to his creators!
Here’s Little Jake’s, What I Did on My Summer Vacation, note home:
Dear Jennifer (or should I technically call you “Mom” since you created me?):
I thought you told me that during the first few months of any newborn’s life, the people around you do all the work and the baby just lays around looking cute and being doted upon.
Well apparently E&B Paving didn’t get that memo.
Have I ever been busy this summer…and I’m only a few months old! What happened to that grace period you promised me??? My summer “vacation” started when those guys from E&B trotted me out to Carmel’s Rock the District festival where you can see that I was quite the hit with the ladies (OK, so that part of being a mascot is pretty cool) and I even appeared on stage to warm up the crowd before the headliner music act (Little Jake rocks! Eat your heart out Mike Jagger…). Check me out on the E&B asphalt paving equipment (rollin’, rollin’, rollin’, keep that asphalt rollin’…).
Then, they pulled me from the comfortable confines of my customized duffle bags where I was snoozing peacefully and took me up to Peru, Indiana for that town’s annual circus parade. I walked the parade route and was definitely more popular than the circus tiger (could it have been because I handed out E&B lollipops to the kids while the tiger just laid in his cage looking bored by the whole event?).
And if that weren’t enough to exhaust a newborn mascot, I became the centerpiece of an advertisement that E&B created to demonstrate their support of Scecina High School’s athletic teams. Uh huh, that’s right, notice who’s standing next to the cheerleaders (Little Jake can be one suave fellow).
OK, so I’ve been a rock star, a parade attraction, and a magazine model…not bad for a youngster. I may need a new pair of those size 14 shoes before long at the rate E&B is going — my feet are getting tired from all of these appearances.
Hope you have had as much fun this summer as I have had hanging out with all of my new friends and spreading goodwill about E&B Paving.
Your pal,
Little Jake
