So, I came up with the idea for the Psychic Maid Service. The maids are really expensive and act as psychic servants, doing what their employer wishes without any need for the effort to explain his wishes. There are some tasks that are sufficiently annoying to delegate that a non-psychic maid could not do them without more work on the part of the employer than would be done by just doing it himself. A psychic maid would work with an employer 24-7, reading his thoughts and building a mental picture of exactly what should be done to make things perfect for him. Little things like realizing that he might be too lazy to plug his phone into the charger but that it needs to be done. Or keeping constant mental track of the location of his television remote control and ensuring it is always restored to the couch arm-rest after he gets up, regardless of where he left it.
The failure, then, comes from the fact that if you hang around someone 24-7 reading their mind, it will be easy to form an opinion about that person. If it's a negative opinion, their frequent thoughts about fucking you (whether the service includes that in its high price is up to an author) will probably push it down further. But if they really like the person, they might quickly grow to like them much more. Keep in mind that a psychic servant would be less likely to find service annoying, since they would have a full understanding of exactly what their tasks meant to their employers (and presumably, wouldn't bother to do anything the employer didn't care about or was perfectly happy to do himself). As nice as a thank you is, having someone occasionally mentally think, "Oh my god! She is the most amazing person ever. I suspect for every one thing I actually notice her doing, she is doing 20 more that I am ignorant of. " is even better.
One interesting facet of psychic love is that the psychic is likely to fall in love faster, since she is more aware of the person's character. Still, having someone fulfilling your every need tends to have a positive effect on your feelings about that person, especially if they suddenly decide to stop charging you.
I imagine the service would be originally started as a business but the owners would eventually realize it had inadvertently become an incredibly successful dating service. But their potential customers would remain totally unaware of this until several months after hiring one of their maids, despite occasionally hearing about someone marrying their psychic maid.
The failure, then, comes from the fact that if you hang around someone 24-7 reading their mind, it will be easy to form an opinion about that person. If it's a negative opinion, their frequent thoughts about fucking you (whether the service includes that in its high price is up to an author) will probably push it down further. But if they really like the person, they might quickly grow to like them much more. Keep in mind that a psychic servant would be less likely to find service annoying, since they would have a full understanding of exactly what their tasks meant to their employers (and presumably, wouldn't bother to do anything the employer didn't care about or was perfectly happy to do himself). As nice as a thank you is, having someone occasionally mentally think, "Oh my god! She is the most amazing person ever. I suspect for every one thing I actually notice her doing, she is doing 20 more that I am ignorant of. " is even better.
One interesting facet of psychic love is that the psychic is likely to fall in love faster, since she is more aware of the person's character. Still, having someone fulfilling your every need tends to have a positive effect on your feelings about that person, especially if they suddenly decide to stop charging you.
I imagine the service would be originally started as a business but the owners would eventually realize it had inadvertently become an incredibly successful dating service. But their potential customers would remain totally unaware of this until several months after hiring one of their maids, despite occasionally hearing about someone marrying their psychic maid.