ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Lil Bitta Pod - 27th May 2023

Episode Date: May 26, 2023

On Today's Lil Bitta Pod; Vaughan had to attend a meeting!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The ZM Podcast Network. Fletchwood and Hayley's Little Bit of Pod. Thanks to McCafe. Great things are brewing, one cup at a time. Welcome to A Little Bit of Pod. Now I thought I'd say this for the pod rather than the general broadcast because the tension's behind the Smith House last night. Oh, is this because the family won't hear it?

They won't hear the podcast. Okay, go on, heal. So, last night, you know how adverse I am to meetings. Yes. Yes. It's not my thing. And you know what else I'm adverse to? Hanging out with people.

Yeah. You know what else I'm adverse to? School parents. No offense if you listen to the show and you go to school, but when they all congregate at the gate to chat, I just sit in the car. Oh, yeah. And I don't think I'm snobby.

I just, I'm not great at the small talk. I don't have things in common with people, and I'm terrible with names. Here's a raft of reasons. So last night, we learned that there's this upcoming camp at school, sports camp. Now, it's not for, like, everybody has to go. They select, like, 38 kids from the school, and they go to where I went to camp at school, the Totara Springs Christian Camp at the foot of the Kaimai Ranges, just out of Matamata. Is it Jesus-free?

It's Jesus-free. It's Jesus-light or Jesus-free that week? Jesus-adjacent. He's watching. It's Jesus-adjacent. But bring one, come all, regardless of religions, to the Christian camp. Okay. This week's God sport.

Okay. Yeah, beautiful. So Sade said, well, we both can't go because the children can't stay at home alone yet. Yeah. Wait, why are you going? I've never done that. Rural kids are like, yeah, come on. Yeah, okay.

You got me there. Wait, why are you going? No, because they get the parents because it's not cheap. So they get the parents to go. They tell them all about it. They tell you the cost rather than approaching the kids because then the kids might be like, oh, my God, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. And then they have to ask their parents and their parents can't afford it.

And then there's the awkward thing of you are really keen, yeah, but my parents can't afford it. Oh, I thought you were going to the camp. Oh, God god fuck no why are you there they asked they needed two dad volunteers because the two teachers

that go are females and they're like we need to balance it out we need some dad energy and everybody was kind of like looking around at the dads and I just kept my eyes

straight forward it's like when you're at a show and the person on stage is like we need a volunteer yeah you're just like fuck no and you just glare

at the foot of the stage and you're like not me not me don you're just like fuck no and you just glare at the foot of the stage and you're like not me not me don't even talk to me no one say anything so i went to this meeting i'm adverse to meeting i was talking with other school parents i was in a crowd this was six o'clock on a weeknight that's my sacred time yeah and i go to this meeting and i learn a little bit and i'm actually like this would be really good for Indy. Yeah. And then I get home and I'm like oh so this is the deal with the cam and I say it all and I'm like so you keen to go? She's like no. I was like why the fuck did I just go

to a meeting? Why the fuck was I sat in a classroom on a tiny chair? A tiny tiny chair. Because it's a child's chair. It's a tweens chair. Oh okay. Child's chair. Yeah. Too small for an adult chair. Yeah. I'm's a tween's chair. Oh, okay. Slightly bigger than a child's chair. Yeah.

Too small for an adult chair. Yeah. I'm on a tween's chair listening to this presentation. Comical, though. Comical. I watch a montage of last year's sports camp set to Pharrell's Happy. You know I'm not even- Oh, I hate that fucking song.

Of course it was. Of course it was. Fuck, I hate that song. Of course it was. Zero refreshments. Yeah, right. Oh, not even a juice. Then I had to have an early dinner so I could go.

So then by the time I got home, again, I'm hungry. Two dinners. Yeah, two dinners. I absolutely annihilate a bag of chips, and I'm trying to be a better boy this week. Yeah. So all of these things. And then I say, oh, so you're keen to go? No.

I was like, I'm confused at to what point I got signed up for this meeting when that wasn't even a contemplated note. Yeah. That was an aura. I'll think about it. So anyway, tensions were up. I wasn't actually. I was just like, oh, okay. I'm saving money.

Yeah. I'm saving money. I'm doing the budget on my head. I'm like, that's great. That's money saved. And Sade's like, hold on. Why not? And then it gets into a whole thing.

Oh. And he hates camps. Yeah, I hated camps as a kid, though. Why? Because we were asking and she couldn't. Yeah, because I hated them. Just sort of, I was like, I didn't want to be away from the comforts. But then my parents would always make me go and I'd have the best time.

Exactly. Whereas I loved camps and I got there and they never lived up to expectations. Oh, okay. Someone wasn't managing his expectations. You just fucking walked all the time. I'm like, we're going to be doing the cool stuff. We're going to be playing in rivers. Always wet and cold.

Always wet. Always cold. Always smelly. But always fine. Even as a kid, I didn't like smells. Yeah. So, yeah, she was just a flat no. And then Sade was like, why not?

And then she's like, just because. And then everything was like, and I had this glimpse. Yeah. This glimpse into what it's going to be like having three menstruating women in the house. Oh, yeah. Just a glimpse. You are just, you're fucked. I had no, and there was no ice cream to diffuse the situation.

You should start lining your treehouse with jib and heating. Dude, I actually have. I actually have. When we did some renovations, we had some leftover insulation, and I packed it into the walls of the treehouse. I'm like, sweet, now it just needs some plywood over top. Some Wi-Fi. Yeah, yeah.

Get some nice thermal curtains. Yeah, I love this. A draft stopper at the door. And then, yeah, that'll be your little retreat. Absolutely. And I can wee straight off the deck. Ooh. What if it's good for the lawn?

It's good for the lawn. It's good for the lawn. If it's good for the lawn, then I'll take it back.