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My sister told me about the Maid Cafe she attended on her trip to Japan. Maid cafés (メイドカフェ Meido kafe) are a subcategory of cosplay restaurants found predominantly in Japan. In these cafés, waitresses dressed in maid costumes act as servants, and treat customers as masters (and mistresses) in a private home, rather than as café patrons. The first permanent maid café, Cure Maid Café, was established in Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan in March 2001, but maid cafés are becoming increasingly popular. As they have done so, the increased competition has made them become crazier in order to attract customers. They have also expanded overseas to countries like China, South Korea, Taiwan, the Czech Republic, Mexico, Canada and the United States. Source: Wikipedia

The first indication I got that I was too big to travel abroad was when I stepped into the Boeing 777-300 cabin and immeadiately hit my head hard on the roof of the doorway. I guess hitting my head on things could be considered to be clumsy but to be honest I really don’t expect to encounter doorways, hanging light fittings and other assorted normally high items at the same level as my head. The place where I’m currently staying I narrowly miss hitting exit signs, smoke alarms and fire sprinkers with my head and earlier I collided with a ceiling in a corridor. The plane seats felt like a tight prison – dreading another passenger potentially sitting in front of me, trapping and pinning me by reclining the seat onto my legs. Luckily I had the seat beside me … Continue reading →