Ryan Auto Mall

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. At Ryan Auto Mall, every morning begins with an announcement over the PA system: ‘Ladies and gentlemen, please be advised that today’s lucky number is seven.’ Employees shrug it off as just another quirky tradition until one day, a delivery driver spots something strange on the seventh row. The delivery driver calls his colleague, jokingly saying, ‘Hey, did you hear? Today’s lucky number is seven—there are now seven cars missing!’ Everyone laughs, but later that night, a neighbor reports their old clunker gone from the parking lot. The next morning, the PA crackles again: ‘Today’s lucky number… eight!’

2. At Ryan Auto Mall, every afternoon around closing time, the PA system suddenly starts playing nursery rhymes at full volume. One day, a delivery driver came in complaining that his headphones were always getting stuck in the CD player. It turned out he’d been listening to nursery rhymes all morning without realizing it. As the sun set over the mall, everyone laughed when they realized why the nursery rhymes had become such a daily occurrence.

3. At Ryan Auto Mall, whenever a new car arrives on the lot, the security guard’s dog starts barking uncontrollably and running towards it, as if recognizing something familiar. One day, an old neighbor drove in with his rusty pickup. The dog went ballistic again, chasing after it like an old friend. Turned out, the truck was exactly the same model he’d owned twenty years ago. Since then, every time someone brings their dad’s old car, the dog goes nuts—just trying to reunite them with their childhood memories.

4. At Ryan Auto Mall, during the early morning fog, a delivery driver always hears a strange humming sound coming from beneath the cars. One day, curious about the noise, the delivery driver crawled under one of the cars and found nothing but an old radio tuned to static. As he straightened up, his colleague joked, ‘That’s your morning alarm!’ From then on, whenever anyone asked about the humming, everyone just smiled and said, “Oh, that’s just Ryan’s secret wake-up call.”