What is the shortest Uber or Lyft ride that you have given/taken?

The answer is not as interesting as it sounds.  Certainly not as fun as the longest ride stories.

I regularly drive someone literally 1 city block to the destinations.  It's usually people who don't check the addresses and mistakenly call an Uber despite the fact they are pretty much already at the location.

Some people knowingly do it.  I drive in NYC and there are many tourists in mid-town.  There are some people when they cannot find a location, they just call a taxi or an Uber.  Is it smart?  I am not sure. I guess?

Then there are people who knowingly do it.  They just don't want to walk the streets.  Sometimes they are VIPs or celebrities.  Sometimes they are simply spoiled (and high-society).  Sometimes they want to avoid the rain.

Here's a trip that never left the parking lot of a mall.

This one gets two prizes.  Being short and arriving at the same location.  $4.00

One-way street is a pain on a Uber.

My shortest was 15 seconds. I picked up her in front of a mall and I drove her kitty corner away to the restaurant.  She was not disabled.  She got off, without a word.  I really couldn't tell if she was super embarassed or totally meant to do it. 

Speaking of arriving at the same place...

Not a good performance by the driver.  You'd better hope this was a multi-destination trip.

I just picked up a young girl who got off the train.  When I started the ride, it was literally across the street.  I asked her if she entered the address wrong (maybe she mixed up the destination as her current locaiton), but she embarassingly told me that's right. She apologized profusely and asked what to do.  I said there isn't much i can do, so I drove her across the street.  Even if either of us cancelled, she would have been charged the minimum, so..

This seems to happen every few months for me.  Maybe every 500 rides or so?