ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Lil Bitta Pod -24th August, 2025

Episode Date: August 23, 2025

On Today's Lil Bitta Pod; Vaughan was THAT customer at the pub...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. I went to saw a movie that at the end of it, I was like, I wonder how that got made. Oh. Because I didn't hate it, but I was just like, I, it's, either it was tough times. Yeah. The Toxic Avenger starring Peter Dinklage, as the aforementioned Toxic Avenger. Okay.

Also blows my mind. Does he gaslight you? Is that a super? No, yeah, he's toxic. The sequel is going to be The Tocat's the Avenger The Red Flags were there all along You're going to talk about

It's like no I didn't You're mad That's why You've imagined that Yeah you need to calm down Very toxic You need to calm down Very toxic

That's actually a really funny superhero Whose superpower is just red flags The gaslighter The gaslighter And they have the ability To make you question yourself Yeah I did not kill that village

No The entire village That's absurd Why would I even do that? Put that in your head Why would I do that? Why? What did they do to me?

It does sound like a stupid movie you'd go to though So the toxic adventure And Kevin Bacon was in it as well Last fam Love Peter I know And it was like funny

And but it was like a big great horror movie And like I remember watching The original movies as a kid And watching the cartoons and stuff So it was like A bit of a nostalgic buzz And then afterwards

Went with a friend To get somebody to eat And walked into a place And the minute we walked in the woman or the waitress looked at us like fuck sake like god damn it I think they must have had a rule

I think they must have had a rule when it gets a certain number of people in the restaurant they can start shutting down yeah put in the chairs up because it was like a Tuesday night and so yeah like yeah and she was like oh hi like that she'd greet us and she's like do you want to see a menu

like hoping we were going to be like no I was like yeah we could go a snack and we're just going to get a snack and a drink each And she was like, oh, okay, got the menu, it was like, this page, not happening. This page is not happening. She was like, this page, also not happening apart from that, that, that and that. What was it, chips and olives? It was chips.

Oh, chips and curry sauce. Yep. And, I know, killer. What a great night nightstand. We need to be doing that more. That, like, cauliflower that's pretending to be fried chicken. Yum. And a couple of other bits and pieces.

So anything they could put in the deep fry. 100%. 100%. Deep fry is the only thing still going. The kitchen was being cleaned. You could hear it. And I was like, oh, yeah, okay. And so we'll get a drink.

And she's like, I can't get your food? And I was like, can we get the chips with the curry sauce and the cauliflower moonlighting as chicken? As chicken, yeah. Which fools me every time I pick it up. I'm like, I'm going to get ready to hit some chicken. I'm going to get cauliflower and I'm always disappointed. It's a yum. It's a young way to cauliflower, but it's disappointing.

It's not chicken. So, and then she comes back and she's like, we can't do the curry sauce. Why not? Chuck it in the microwave? I don't know Well they've run out of it She just like She just can't be fucked

Cannot be fucked Like And then comes back And it's just like I'm just gonna let you know The kitchen's closing In like 15 minutes Yeah

I was like that's okay Like we're not gonna get Anything else from the kitchen Just the chips We're not gonna get another round of chips and cauliflower No we're not gonna keep going on This very limited thing

And then she comes over And she's like I just wanted to let you know that where like the bars kind of If you want anything else the drink. I was like, no, that's fine, we're only here for one drink.

That's all good. Thank you very much. They really wanted you gone. And then the other big group that was their left. Yep. So there's us and two other people at another table and we sit in there and we're like, like having a drink, having a chat. And she comes in and she's like, hi guys. Oh my God, just leave.

We were like snacking, but we weren't concentrating on the eating. And she came over with that parental energy of, you need to hurry out and finish your dinner because I want to do the dishes and it's time to go to bed. Oh my God. She just did not want us there. Yeah, it's a bit of a New Zealand thing, eh, because you go overseas and, like, places don't start kicking off until, like, 10 or 11 restaurants. And they'll just let you stay there, eat slowly. That's all my mum hates about New Zealand.

She's like, God, they're rushing us out the door. In Italy, you know, the table's yours until you're bloody done with it. And you can just say they're all afternoon. And then you think, geez, we've been in the sun for a bit. Should we get some food? Yeah, yeah, yeah. But are they smaller places? Yeah, I guess so.

It's a few people to kind of like fill up the seats and there's an obligation that if you're there you're going to be drinking or eating or But then, okay, so Did you let it rush you? No. See, I would be a bit people pleasing. We were thoroughly enjoying how much she was hating her job.

Yeah, yeah. And we agreed it would be the same energy we'd be giving something at 8 o'clock on a Tuesday night. Oh, yeah. Can I get you anything else or are we done? Do you come up and said, guys, I'll just let you know we're like thinking of closing up in about 15.

I'm like, that's cool. I don't think we're going to be 15 more minutes. But while I've got you worryabouts is your bathroom, and you just saw her look at me like, fuck you, dude. I've just cleaned it. And she's like, it's down there. I was like, okay, thanks.

I went to the bathroom, and yeah, it had been like freshly cleaned. Did you drop one? Yeah, just on the floor. No, I was very respectful. And then came out. And she was kind of like sitting at the other part of the bar. And everyone in there she put her head around the corner just to be like, oh, my God, I love that.

How far away. Shannon is reminded of her time working as a waitress. Oh, yes. Oh, my goodness. And you've experienced this pain. Yes, so you are literally the worst kind of customer. Because a lot of the small restaurants I used to work at, they would be like, all right, your clock off time tonight is 10.

Yep. If there were still customers at 10.30, you were not paid. Like, our job was to get them out. See, that's not fair to me. No. I just walk out at 10. and say, you're not paying me, like, I'm not staying here. No, but I was like 15, you know, like, that's what you're told.

And so that's why you would kind of like shimming them alone because you're like, I have to close this up. I'm not being paid right now. I just tell them, we're only open until 10 and then you have to be gone. Sorry, guys, that's it. Yeah. But when there is more of a flexible ending, like a pub, sometimes when they can't be bothered, I'm like, man, look at this group.

We'll spend hundreds. Oh, that's a big group. Yeah. Well, we'll... Hi guys, last drinks. You're like, um... We used to whip out the vacuum. Like, we would start vacuuming and be like...

Oh, fuck you. You're like, rude back. Leave. So when... I love that. I said, I'll wear about so I pay. I went out to a till. I'll just close up.

I'll pay. And she was like, I've actually shut this till down. Can you come with me to the front? I said, well, I guess I guess so we'll pay on the way out. So I'm walking out and I put out, whatever it was. And I went to pay and I looked down the thing. like add tip yes or no and I looked at it and I looked at her and I was just don't think you fucking earned it maybe if you made us feel somewhat welcome that you weren't like come on

get the fuck out of here yeah so I like looked at her and then pressed no and she was like oh yeah we don't tip in New Zealand we don't tip in New Zealand so paid and left but yeah like worth it like so good fucking funny as