TRACEY BENDINGER | Culture | Contact

The transition from boyhood to manhood is celebrated in cultures right across the world, some mark the rite of passage by land diving, others by wearing a glove filled with bullet ants, but today in Betoota Old Town Branden Ashbury became a man the Australian way.

At approximately 7:15pm Branden left the basement of his friend’s house to meet with a drug dealer to pick up ‘stick of weed’ all by himself.

Up until now, Branden has always gone with his best mate, Jael, but today Branden manned up and took his first-ever solo hot lap with a dealer.

“Shit, I was pretty nervous” he tells our reporter.

“Stomach full of butterflies n all that”

“But you know, I feel different now”

“I dunno if I can keep hanging out with Jael, he seems so young to me now”

The Advocate reached out to Branden’s marijuana dealer, through connections of mutual connections, not because we have his number saved in our phone, to see how the little fella did on his first solo exchange.

“Ahaha he was shaking like a leaf, I fucked with him and drove past his house on the way back”

“Should have seen his face!”

“Anyway, little fella did good, gave him my other number for when he’s ready for the hard stuff haha [sic]”

More to come.

