ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Lil Bitta Pod - 8th March, 2025

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From the Zedium Podcast Network, it's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley's Little Bit of Pod. Welcome to A Little Bit of Pod. I was checking into a hotel at the weekend. You had a little weekend away. I had a weekend away. I had a weekend away. I was doing a John Deere adventure in Melbourne, Australia.

Yeah. And I checked in, I was checking into the hotel and there was a bit of a line and I kind of got with an earshot of a woman that was taking a long time to check in. I always think checking takes too long.

Yeah. Like, what are they doing tapping away on their... Like, you weren't... I booked it. Like, you didn't know I was coming? Yeah. I could understand

if you turn up and you're like, excuse me, have you got any chance of accommodation tonight? Oh, totally. Tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap. But no, I'm coming, baby. Yeah. And I just gave you my reference number. You've typed that in, and now you're doing all sorts of typing.

Yeah. Now what? I don't know what's happening behind that. Describing me? Some of them are pretty onto it. Like, they have everything printed out and the key ready, and then they're just like, doodle-do. Hello, sex.

They go, brr, S. They go, little thing. They go, S, doodle it good go sex they they go little thing they get s doodle up smith pump there you go yeah i like that have a great day um always put a fake email address because i don't really want the marketing oh yeah even when you tick no you always get that we've got 25 of rooms you're like i said no but don't you want some don't you want to save money no because i'm well i intended to come to the city i'd have to spend want to save money? No, because if I intended to come to the city, I'd have to spend money to save money. So I was checking, and this woman was ages. She was a bit of an older lady. And I got with an earshot, and I heard her last three questions,

and I don't even know what the first 25 questions would have been. Does my room face the, because it was by the airport, does my room face the airport? Will I be able to see the planes? Oh, she wanted to, but she didn't. I had the feeling she wanted was by the airport, does my room face the airport? Will I be able to see the planes? Oh, she wanted to, but she didn't. I heard the feeling she wanted to see the planes, and then she said, what side does the sun rise from? I don't like hotel rooms that get sun first

thing in the morning, because I like the darkest of the room. Oh, for God's sake. Jesus Christ. Like, just shut up. Just shut up. And what happens if I run out of toilet paper? Oh my God, has she never stayed in a... Use your hands like the rest of us Yeah jump straight into the shower It's not your shower

That's just a big bidet Wash your butt in the hotel shower What happens if I run out of toilet paper? Ring reception and ask for more Pop back down I don't know if she was hoping for a couple of rolls to take with her Also you get a couple of rolls They always have a spare one.

Why is she being so, why is she, has she got the shits? I think she must have had an irritable bowel. But yeah, to not wanting to sleep on the side of the hotel where the sun comes up because they don't like to be. But what if the side where the sun comes up was on the side with the planes? Exactly. Yeah. It wasn't.

It wasn't. It wasn't. I learned this when I saw the sun set a few hours later and it was over the planes. And you were like, well, they'll be happy about that. I was like, she's going to be stoked if she's on the same side of the hotel as me. If she's not, though, she's not going to see the planes and she's not going to get the sunrise.

Yeah. Yeah. And I borrowed some hand towels from the gym complex within the hotel because I needed to see your gym towels. Oh, for gym towels. What? Borrow-borrowed? Borrow-borrowed. For him?

Have you brought them home with you? Yeah. For him? You little thief. For him? I need some new gym towels. But they'll be white. They'll be white.

Yeah, that's what I like of a gym towel. You go and buy them. I've got black gym towels. Best decision. I've got one black gym towel and I don't like it. It's not as absorbent as a white hand towel. Well, that's because you haven't purchased All of my gym towels are the house's old hand towels

Right No you need to get a sweat wicking microfiber No you need a good cotton Yeah I'm with him on this one It's an absorbent hand towel I said that but I hate microfiber because I've got snaggy hands Every dry bit of skin Snaggy hands

Snaggy old hands Snaggy hands Oh my dry bit of skin. Snaggy hands. Snaggy old hands. Snaggy hands. Oh, my God, you little thief. But do you remember that short-lived Friday night New Zealand lifestyle show called Kiwi Living? No. Neither. No, not at all.

When TVNZ had money and invested in shows, they sent out a PR pack and they put in an extremely long towel that could have been used for nothing else apart from the gym. Right. That finally shit from the gym. Right. That finally shit itself last week. Right. So you were like, rather than like most people,

buying new towels. Go to farmers when towels are on sale. You resorted to theft. Or briscoes. You resorted to theft. Wow. It was borrowing. It is theft.

When are you going to fucking return it? I'm going to take them back when I'm finished. When? When are you going back to this hotel? I probably never. Never. Because my face will be on the security camera

stealing all those towels. Do you know we talked about my fine for my dirty My destroyed flannel. My destroyed flannel or hotel hand towel or whatever

and I replied back saying may I see the hand towel? That's right. Haven't heard anything. Oh, boasting. Zero correspondence. But they've still charged you. They've still charged me the eight dollars. Oh, ghosting. There's been zero correspondence.

But they've still charged you. They've still charged me. You have $8. Oh, my God, I would follow up. I've got a letter here. I would follow up. Why are you rummaging in your bag? Because I got it slipped under my door on the express check.

Oh, no, here it is. Now, tell me this. Okay. What is a merchant service fee? That's the credit card fee. Yeah. How have you never heard that term before? I've never heard merchant service fee.

I was like, I dealt with no merchants. You know when it says F-plus merchant. I thought I dealt with merchants. I thought $4.62 Australian Yeah Which is pretty bloody close To $5 And I didn't see a single merchant A rug merchant No rug merchants

No rug merchants No camel merchants No camel merchants No No Bazaar No merchants at the bazaar No

You didn't run into a spice merchant In the lobby I did actually Okay well that will be it I got some A grains merchant Not a grains merchant Not a merchant

A fish merchant Oh my gosh I would have loved to merchant Not a grains merchant Not a merchant A fish merchant I would have loved to have seen a fish merchant Okay Okay So that's what that means Yeah How have you never heard that term before I've never heard it before

Right Yeah it's just because you used your credit card And they charge you for the credit This guy steals $40 of the hotel towels And then is like $5 a month I thought a merchant would be I thought it might be

But I was like They charge you more per towel And then I don't know I've stolen them yet. They could have just taken them back to the room. There might be a giant pile. You found a loophole there. No, because you found a loophole. They don't account for the gym towels.

Towels from the gym. Yeah. No. No. They're all rolled up. Wow. Great towels. You guys got to see these towels.

It's funny, eh? I want to see inside that gym. The towel gods taketh with me, but giveth to Vaughn. Yeah, they do. They have taketh. So the world is kind of equal now because I paid that i want to see inside the towel gods taketh with me but giveth to vaughn yeah they do they have taken the world is kind of equal now because i paid that yeah the tough force the towel force has found its sacred balance once again