I always thought it was fun when I was in a random group of people at a party and a couple of individuals were stoned... kinda rambling their ideas but really going far out there with the whats and ifs. It would be fun to have a service that paired you with an individual or group who wanted a &#x27;guide&#x27; for their herb trips as they walked around the city &#x2F; city parks &#x2F; recreational outdoor areas.<p>-------------------<p>Like, people could pick &#x27;flavour&#x27; of guides. E.g.:<p>[  x  ]  This Person A likes to talk and share his knowledge about bikes.<p>[  x  ] This PersonB likes to talk about Kant&#x2F;Heigel and some other western philosophy.<p>[  x  ] This PersonC can do card tricks and has hilarious stories about his time overseas staying at &#x27;X&#x27;. (ok now this is getting farfetched here, but hey people like doing stuff!) He also can wear a cape if you send a special request and bring a small jade plant.<p>--------------------<p>MIght not need to even be monetized or anything, I think it would just be fun to connect with other random groups of people and put on a &#x27;facade&#x27; of the &#x27;guide&#x27;, which in turn might create real friendships. (When we meet new people we usually are putting on a neutral facade of some sort and really only show our deeper layers once the intimate connections have had time to be laid down).<p>Also , I think this meetup format is less akward because there is a preset goal in mind:  E.g:  THis person is going to be talking&#x2F;showing&#x2F;interacting around this theme&#x2F;subject&#x2F;activity. So this is similar to when people take courses in college (with preset goal of learning about course subject) and can form friendships more easily with people beside them&#x2F;in discussion group (as the relationship has the prebuilt support already there to help it build around).<p>This is kinda fun to rant on so maybe i will continue later but yes.... Rent A Friend style idea seems to have potential it could be sooo much more.<p>could work on ideas of:
Homogeneity of English Language. Would be fun to rent-a-friend but with goal of learning their native language. (E.G. hmm i am bored on a sunday afternoon, I know , I will practice my language with a rent-a-friend japanese speaker because I love the phonetics. (maybe the pairing will also speak japanese as 2nd language but that makes for another commonality base to talk around)