Rent-a-Friend

Above: a cartoon of mine from a few months back.I just saw this BBC News piece by Claire Prentice in which she reports firsthand on her "renting a friend" experience.Now this is just plain wrong. And it sounds like a rib or something a business student makes up for class.OK, renting a power washer, sure. Renting a car, yes. But renting a person to take to the ballgame or talk politics with is