いらっしゃいませ

The middle of the week is seriously dead boring this season with all the good shows concentrated on Thurs-Mon so i've been turning to niconico for random shit to keep me occupied till the next Macross ep.

Today's niconico discovery is a training video for supermarket employees featuring Horie Yui. The video was made in 1997, she was probably working part-time while still in seiyuu school. It's quite a long video, but strangely entertaining. It features the dos and don'ts of sucking up to customers with skits to illustrate the point. Yui plays the "good" employee. There was a skit where this guy walks up to Yui and asks “エロ本ありますか？” Of course, she angelically shows him the way. The deluge of "Ho-chan good girl!" comments scrolling across the screen throughout the video was just hilarious.

There was a part where the video was going through filling up your application forms for the job. They used Yui's photo in the form and the commentors were going mad with stuff like "Show me her address!!". Too bad it's a fake form, the name written in there was Suzuki Yoshiko or something.

I did learn a few polite phrases from the video, like いらっしゃいませ and 少々お待ちくださいませ so it wasn't a completely brainless waste of time unlike the millions of Nursery Rhyme parodies out there. Btw, i can't stop watching the Code Geass harem OP version that's all over Youtube. true my heart refuses to get out of my head.