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A local 10-year-old has this morning cemented himself as the popular kid amongst his classmates by pretending to smoke a cigarette while waiting at the bus stop.
It’s understood that, Aayden Anderson, who picked up his smoking techniques from his pack a day father, held a Fad Musk Stick between his index and middle finger and proceeded to mimic the actions of smoking. Where he won the crowd over though was when he breathed out ‘smoke’ – which was actually just condensation from his breath.
This visual trickery occurs when a person’s exhaled breath mixes with cooler outside air and the relative humidity (RH) increases. If it can reach 100%, then breath condensation will commence – which is exactly what has lead to Aayden’s dart depiction success.
The Advocate caught up with Aayden and his classmates after their 1.5hr commute to Betoota Public School, where it seemed the trick had yet to lose its appeal.
“Ohhh haha [sic] it’s sick! Come have a cigarette with us” pestered one young boy.
“It’s not actually a cigarette don’t worry”
When asked what inspired this faux rebellion, Aayden informed us that he was just doing it to be more like his dad – who, he thinks, always has friends coming around and it’s probably because he smokes.
“Oh, I just seen dad doing it, he looks really cool and he’s popular so I thought maybe that would help me.”
While it’s usually adorable for a young boy to impersonate his dad, Aayden’s dad is actually a hectic druggo and we don’t think following in his footsteps is necessarily the right way to win over classmates.
More to come.
