We heard Koshiba and Kubo’s plans to meet up for a beer at the Maid Bar after work. We saw them kick back and relax. But now, it’s time for the maids’ perspective. What’s going through their minds…

This probably isn’t too far from the truth, although I bet much worse things are said

If the costumes are so hot, perhaps they should make the necklines lower and the skirts shorter, or would that make them hotter?

As for talking about yourself in the third person, it makes you sound either “special’ or like a jerk in English. A lot of rappers seem to talk like that at times, ‘Fat Joe gonna eat some pies’, and suchlike.

マーキ星！음악 고맙습니다!

Thanks for the music!

マクシーさん、どういたしまして！みなさん好きならいいなー。　

kitty-chanさん and javizyさん、i’ve been told it’s childlike to speak like that, so some girls do it be cute. at first i didn’t get it, but now i kinda like it too.
but if someone does it in english, i’m not down with it at all.

these maids crack me up cuz they’re the opposite of kubo and koshiba’s mental image. it’s like realizing disney is just a massive corporation or the truth about santa. but those guys are fully prepared to live the dream!

マーキー

マクシーさんもじばけがあります

マーキーさん In English, reffering to one’s self in the 3rd person definately is childish, in negative way. Definately not cute.

Great Lesson, thanks Team J-Pod!!

Here in Okayama we have one maid cafe that I know of. In the summer the maids pass out flyers for their cafe in front of the shop. I don’t think their clothes are really uncomfortable, but outside in the summer heat all that black material must absorb the sun like something else! But they really seem genki! I’ve never been, but now I think I’ll try to go. It doesn’t seem like such a mystery now! Thanks!!!

Those guys’ night out are wonderful lessons!!! I love to learn informal Japanese I can “use”!!!

I really didn’t know about that part of Miki’s, from Miki’s blog, whereabouts!

I just didn’t get the last part, when the maids say:

今日も来てくれたの?

It sounded kind of peppy to me, so I imagined they were addressing some customer walking in. But, that was too informal to be that. Even though I consider “kite kureru” quite polite. Am I wrong?

Also, here in Brazil, we also usually use our own names instead of “I” when we want to joke about something or indicate that “you” were the one in charge of something nobody else wanted to do.

Like if I said: “JP is going to clean the dirty dishes now”, meaning, even though I don’t want it, I’ll have to take care of that unpleasant thing.

Mata

JP101 crew/listeners!

This Guys night out series is one of my favorites!

Miki-san working at the maids cafe, it’s increible WOW!

Good luck you deserve it, I go to visit Maid Arbol ( BeautyTree) when I go to Japan later on!

I can’t wait for the other ones, more more more S_R_C

i just checked and these two are 募集中 (now hiring)

http://www.joyworld.info/~kamoon/
http://www.cominica.co.jp/marc/

marky

João Paulo-san!

Yes, that’s true. 「来てくれたの」 is not formal way. And also, kitekureru… this is just plain form of “kitekureta”.
I think polite way to say in customer service is 「来ていただく」

The reason that the maid said ｢来てくれたの」 in this situation. My guess is that maids didn’t want to make distance between customers and maids, I mean, they just wanted to be friendly. Customers in maid cafe are like that, too.
They don’ t have like “Typical Japanese customer service” in a maid cafe.