ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Lil Bitta Pod -12th November, 2025

Episode Date: November 11, 2025

On Today's Lil Bitta Pod; the much anticipated couch story part two!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From the Zedium Podcast Network, it's Fletchfallen and Haley's Little Bit of Pod. Welcome to A Little Bit of Pod. Where do I start? Well, I like many, waiting with bated breath to see what's the story with the couch that you waited 13 months or a replacement for that already you're not happy with? I will say, like, if you've missed the couch saga, a quick summary, I indulge in an expensive couch from a reputable Australian. brand and it was a true piece that I thought I would have for years 10 I thought you know I really wanted to live in this couch it had a broken back and I thought that's fine it happens sometimes I'll get a replacement for a faulty thing 13 months later and and on the arse end of

the worst customer service I've ever received in my life ever full stop ever the new couch finally arrived last week okay and I get a photo from Patsy Ann of the couch and it looks fine. Yeah. Right. When I went to go get the replacement, they didn't have the exact same fabric that I had. Yeah. But it was like, here's the other navy blue one we have.

Yep. And it's close enough. And I said, that matches. We'll go with that fabric. It arrives. Yesterday, as I mentioned in yesterday's a little bit of pod, we were sitting on the floor having some drinks and sing-alongs, me and my family, as we want to do.

and I was lying on the rug when I noticed these stabby little metal bits hanging out of the bottom of the couch where they're not supposed to be it's a modular couch and they had these little bits that spin out and click together so that the thing stays there Oh yeah my couch has got those yeah yeah yeah but they're only supposed to be in the parts for the right configuration right so like I've got a little Shays Ottoman bit and it's on the right hand side and then I'm looking at

the left hand bit, and it's got these metal bits for a chaise, which means they've actually given me the wrong fucking part. So they've given me the wrong orientation of couch. They've given me a left-hand one rather than the right-hand one. How did you notice? Because I'm on the ground and I can see the little metal bits for the clippy bits. Yeah, but when it's sitting there, it looks fine? No, it's not, because I can see these little metal bits sticking out of the bottom.

Oh, yeah. Where you would click in the ottoman, but I'm not because it's supposed to be clicked in on the other side. Okay, so hang on November, December, December. So January 27. I could get the new one. January 2027. That's fine. Or let's just pencil on the delivery.

No, no, no, no, no. Because I look at this and I was like, oh my God. I was like, just annoys me. Because it's an expensive couch. I've waited this long. Worst customer service. And it's not right. It's a principle.

And I fucked it up again. And it is just, and I was like, oh my God. Then I was like, well, hang on. And I just had a quick flip up. And I was like, oh, there's bolts. So I'll be able to undo those. Yeah. And I'll screw it in.

to the other side to remedy their fuck up that's fine I'm not doing another 13 months then I realise I've been so busy I haven't actually sat on this couch yeah and the last couch

so comfortable lovely soft linen and just lovely I fall asleep on it all the time so I was like I've just been sitting on the floor or my parents have been enjoying the couch so I'll go in the armchair

and I'll have a little lay down on the couch the moment that fabric touches my skin we have a problem. Oh, what? I, fuck me. So as I mentioned, I couldn't get the same fabric. Yeah. So I got the closest one too.

I have sensitive skin so things like swan drys or woolen blankets or particular fabrics will instantly make my skin crawl. The moment this fabric touches my skin, it feels like a Hessian sack. Oh, okay, yeah. A large, itchy, uncomfortable, irritable, going to give me a rash, multi-thousand-dollar Hesian log of shit. I don't even want to sit on it. And I know I have sensitive skin, but I was like, no. Did Patsy and Craig say anything?

She was like, yeah, I notice it's a bit rough, but they don't have the sensitive skin then I've got. Well, you might need to put a towel. So here's the fucking... Chuck a towel now. solution. Mum's like you've got to get yourself a soft linen

throw. And every time you want to sit on the couch, which I'll say is every fucking day is every fucking day I want to sit on that couch,

I'll get it out and lay a soft cloth so that my skin can handle this Hessian shit log. That's what parents do for their cats

and dogs on the couch. My mum doesn't. My mum doesn't. that should put a little pillowcase on. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, really, to stop the hair getting on the couch. The cat will just put too much hair on. Right.

Do you know, and the thought of emailing... I just don't need my animals on the furniture. Oh, no. Ralee loves it. Yeah, a bit of a prick like that. The thought of emailing this company one more time. It's like I would rather scratch my skin to death. You chose the fabric.

That's on you. Yeah, but they should have said, you know, whatever the name of the fabric is in midnight brackets, feels like scratchy, fucking men stubble. crawling up your skin it will make you so irritated you'll never want to sit on it so it'll last 20 years

First time you've complained about sitting on something that feels like men's stubble Oh well that's where I'll have to sit instead of sitting on the couch Jesus Christ Ding ding, ding come on over I don't want to watch TV