Speedway

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. At Speedway, a regular noticed something odd one morning—an old, dusty baseball glove had appeared in the checkout aisle. No one claimed it, and every day it seemed to move just slightly closer to the cash register. Finally, after weeks of watching its slow migration, a delivery driver joked that maybe it was time for an ‘outfield catch’ with the glove. The next morning, everyone found the glove gone—and a note on the counter: ‘Caught! Now where’s my ball?’

2. At Speedway, a little boy pointed excitedly at the pump nozzles one day. ‘Mom,’ he said, ‘look at those dancing gas pumps!’ His mother just smiled and shook her head, thinking it was another kid’s imagination running wild. A few days later, an older gentleman pulled up and asked the attendant, 'Do your pumps really dance?' The guy laughed and replied, 'Nope, but they sure do make some happy customers!'

3. At Speedway, a delivery driver stopped for gas one afternoon and noticed an unusual item in the parking lot—a large wooden crate marked with mysterious symbols. As he approached closer, the symbols seemed to shift and change like they were alive. Curious, our delivery driver decided to investigate further. Inside the crate was nothing but a pile of old newspapers and a note that read: 'For your speedy reading pleasure.' Turns out, it belonged to a local book club who occasionally left their readings outside for neighbors to discover.

4. At Speedway, a delivery driver pulled up one evening and found something peculiar in the parking lot—a cardboard cutout of a famous race car driver, waving enthusiastically from behind the pumps. The delivery driver gave the dummy a friendly wave back, thinking it was some prankster’s fun. As he approached the counter, his neighbor walked in, grinning sheepishly. ‘I saw that,’ she said, pointing at the cardboard cutout. ‘Turns out I left it there after my kid’s birthday party last week.’ Everyone laughed, realizing the whole town had been entertained by a simple practical joke.