Circle K

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. At Circle K, where gas meets gossip, a regular once exclaimed, ‘I’ve seen everything here—except for that!’ One night, while filling up, he noticed an old man whispering into the air near the pumps. The next day, everyone asked him what the old man said. He shrugged and replied, ‘He just whispered, “Fill it up, son!”’ The regular laughed, and so did the rest of us.

2. At Circle K, where gas meets gossip, a delivery driver once asked: ‘Why does everyone here know when I’m late for lunch?’ A friendly neighborhood regular overheard and quipped back: ‘Because your lunch break is longer than half our inventory!’ The delivery driver just shook his head, smiling, realizing he’d been had—again.

3. At Circle K, where gas meets gossip, one foggy morning a delivery driver peered through mist and saw a shadowy figure filling up with cash. The delivery driver blinked twice—was it really a ghostly silhouette, or just an old man in a hooded sweatshirt? The figure paid with a crinkled twenty, mumbled something indistinct, then vanished into thin air. From that day on, locals would joke about seeing ‘the Circle K ghost’ whenever they filled up there. And every now and then, when the sun set early, someone might whisper, ‘I think I saw him fill up again…’

4. At Circle K, where gas meets gossip, a neighbor once wondered aloud: 'Why do they sell coffee here when everyone knows it’s just for filling up tanks?' One day, an elderly lady approached the counter and asked, ‘Do you have any aspirin?’ The clerk replied, ‘Ma’am, we only have gasoline.’ She smiled and said, ‘Thank goodness! I was worried my car had a headache!’