BOC

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. One foggy morning, a delivery driver pulled up to BOC's loading dock. As he unloaded crates, he swore he heard faint laughter echoing from inside the vault. Curious, he tiptoed closer and saw an old safe with a mischievous cat peering through its keyhole. The driver laughed it off as just another neighborhood prankster, but when he left, he noticed his coffee cup was filled with fresh brew—someone had clearly been watching out for him.

2. A customer approached the teller one afternoon and asked, 'Excuse me, can you tell me what time it is?' The teller replied, 'I'm sorry sir, but our clocks stopped working last night.' The customer nodded understandingly and said, ‘No worries, I’ll just check my watch.’ He looked down, only to realize his own watch had also stopped. With a smile, he turned back to the teller and quipped, ‘Guess I’ll be coming back tomorrow then!’

3. One day, an ordinary envelope landed on the parking lot of BOC. Curious passersby picked it up, but no one could open it—until a regular noticed that the seal broke only when someone said ‘fortune cookie’. Soon enough, a delivery driver arrived and said, 'Fortune cookie!' The envelope opened like magic, revealing a note that read: 'Free donuts for everyone!' A regular shouted, 'Finally, something worth opening!' And from then on, whenever anyone mentioned BOC, people thought not just of banking, but also of free pastries.

4. One morning, as a regular was withdrawing cash from BOC’s ATM, he heard someone whisper, ‘Keep that twenty.’ The man looked around suspiciously but saw no one. Confused, he counted his money and sure enough—there was an extra twenty dollar bill. From then on, every time he visited BOC’s ATM, he’d leave a little something extra for the mysterious benefactor. It became their secret tradition until one day, when a delivery driver asked him, ‘Hey, do you always tip like that?’