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May 16, 2019 05:58 pm PDT

You can pay someone to take a walk with you in Los Angeles now

You've heard of those dog-walking apps like Wag, where you can summon someone to go walk your dog? Now there's a thing like that but for humans in Los Angeles, California.

Meet Chuck McCarthy, the People Walker.

They're on Facebook, if you'd like to take a walk and don't wanna be lonely.

The affable art school graduate with a bushy beard and merry eyes mostly used to work on a laptop in a Hollywood coffee shop, trying to make ends meet by creating web GIFs and landing the occasional acting job, writes Nita Lelyveld in the Los Angeles Times [paywall-free link here]:

Scared to walk alone at night? Dont like walking alone at all? Dont want people to see you walking alone and assume you have no friends? Dont like listening to music or podcasts but cant walk alone in silence forced to face thoughts of the unknown future or your own insignificance in the ever expanding universe? So went McCarthys first tongue-in-cheek sales pitch as the People Walker.

He started walking around in a hand-drawn T-shirt that declared his new profession, peppering neighborhood utility poles with funny promos some cut out of cardboard or old jeans.

What could be more L.A. than a People Walker?

The media began calling almost before the first walk was booked. Then a steady stream of college students, retirees, waitresses and actors asked if they could earn a little cash on the side by becoming people walkers too.

Now McCarthy has a business, which gets a cut of walkers fees.

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