Conoco

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. At Conoco, a delivery driver always arrived around midnight with an unusual request. He’d pull up in his truck, grab a flashlight, and head straight for the storage room. Finally, he would emerge from the storage room holding a large box of donuts, saying, ‘Happy Monday everyone!’ The employees would laugh and shake their heads, knowing it was just another one of his quirky ways.

2. At Conoco, every Tuesday night at exactly nine o’clock, a neighbor would walk in and ask for a special blend of gas—one part regular, one part premium, mixed perfectly. The clerk never questioned it until one week he accidentally swapped the tanks. That Thursday morning, everyone in town was talking about how their cars wouldn’t start right. Turns out, the delivery driver had used the wrong mix on his route too! By Friday, Conoco was back to normal, but from then on, the clerk always double-checked before filling any tank. And every Tuesday night at nine, that same neighbor still walked in, asking for his special blend with a smile.

3. At Conoco, every Thursday morning at dawn, a mysterious truck would pull up, its engine sputtering like an old-timey steam train. The lone attendant, rubbing sleep from his eyes, would approach the window—only to find no one inside. Finally, on closer inspection, the attendant realized that the truck was filled with nothing but boxes of donuts and coffee bags. A neighbor, smiling sheepishly, emerged from behind the wheel. ‘Hey, bud,’ he said, ‘thought you could use some breakfast after your late-night shifts.’

4. At Conoco, late one autumn evening, a regular noticed something peculiar: every time he filled up his car, the gas pump seemed to whisper ‘clickety-click.’ Soft and rhythmic, like a distant ticking clock. Curious, the man mentioned it to other customers, who started noticing the same sound. Soon enough, everyone in town was talking about the whispering gas pump. One day, a delivery driver even brought along his dog, hoping the canine’s sense of hearing would confirm what they were all imagining. But when they finally tracked down the source—a tiny mechanical mouse playing old-timey music inside the pump—it turned out to be just an elaborate prank by a local mechanic with too much free time on his hands.