About this location
A few stories people tell about this place
1. It was an unusually quiet Saturday morning in Bakersfield when a delivery driver pulled up to Brakes Plus. The sun was just peeking over the hills, casting long shadows across the parking lot. As he approached the counter, the mechanic behind it casually asked him if he’d seen any strange lights in the sky lately. The delivery driver blinked and looked around, then shook his head with a smile. ‘No, not really,’ he said. The mechanic shrugged, went back to checking tires, and muttered something about alien sightings being more common than flat tires these days. The story became a neighborhood joke, but nobody ever mentioned those lights again.’
2. While waiting for his car to be fixed, a regular at Brakes Plus overheard the mechanic muttering under his breath, ‘This thing’s got more problems than my ex-wife’s recipes.’ The customer couldn’t help but laugh and asked if everything was really that bad. The mechanic shrugged, ‘Just a few minor issues—nothing serious.’ As he drove off, our regular noticed the mechanic smiling and shaking his head, clearly thinking, ‘At least she didn’t leave as many dents!’
3. A delivery driver stopped by Brakes Plus on a routine day. As he waited for his vehicle inspection, he noticed something peculiar—a strange-looking toolbox had mysteriously appeared near the entrance. The delivery driver shrugged it off and went inside. Later that evening, as he was leaving, he found the same toolbox sitting outside his own house. Turned out, one of the mechanics had accidentally swapped labels. The next morning, everyone in town shared a good laugh—except maybe the poor mechanic who got blamed for it.
4. While waiting for his car to be fixed, a delivery driver noticed something peculiar on the shop’s bulletin board: ‘Last customer to leave their headlights on will win a free oil change!’ The delivery driver chuckled and thought, 'What are the odds?' Later that evening, as he was leaving, he absent-mindedly left his headlights on. To his surprise, when he returned the next day, there was a note on his windshield: 'Congratulations! Your forgetfulness just earned you a free oil change!'