Valvoline

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. At Valvoline, every Tuesday afternoon, an old truck pulls up with no license plates and its engine making strange noises. A gruff voice comes over the intercom: 'Anyone here good with engines? I’ve got a deal for ya.' A mechanic steps outside and waves hello to the truck. Turns out it’s just a delivery driver from the local grocery store. He explains he needs help installing some new shelves in his garage. Everyone cracks up, but agrees to help anyway.

2. At Valvoline, whenever it rains, customers notice something strange—an umbrella appears on the counter, left behind by no one. One day, a delivery driver came in for an oil change and found not just one, but three umbrellas waiting for him. He asked the mechanic, ‘Who’s leaving these?’ The mechanic shrugged, ‘Must be someone who really loves you.’ Later that week, the same guy saw his neighbor walking home dry while it poured outside—he joked, ‘Guess I’m Valvoline’s lucky charm!’

3. At Valvoline, whenever a new employee starts working nights, they claim the bathroom light turns on and off by itself. One night, a delivery driver noticed that the bathroom light was flickering just as he entered. Curious, he followed the glow into the hallway—and found an old man quietly reading a newspaper in the dark. ‘You must be new,’ said the man with a twinkle in his eye. ‘Around here, we’ve got our own way of turning the lights on.’

4. At Valvoline, every Wednesday morning around dawn, a neighbor's cat jumps onto the hood of every parked car in the lot. Every week, after the early-morning oil change rush, one of the mechanics would casually mention that ‘a neighbor’ had left his front door open again. Turns out, it was just the same old tabby, always finding new ways to wake everyone up before sunrise—with a little help from some freshly changed windshield wipers.