QuikTrip

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. At night, when the QuikTrip parking lot was empty, a mysterious voice would come over the intercom: ‘Your gas tank is full of stars tonight.’ No one knew who was speaking or why. One day, an old man walked in and asked curiously, 'What does “full of stars” mean?' The attendant smiled and replied, 'It means your tank’s so clean you could see Orion if you looked hard enough!' The old man nodded wisely and said, 'Ah, now I understand—just like my grandma used to say, “Cleanliness is next to godliness.”'

2. At dusk, while a little girl waited for her dad inside the QuikTrip, she noticed something strange: every time he paid for gas, the cashier greeted him with an unusual phrase—‘Your tank is full of adventure today!’ One day, a delivery driver pulled up and asked jokingly, ‘Does my tank run on friendship today?’ The cashier grinned and replied, ‘Today it does!’ As the driver pumped gas, his truck started playing old rock songs randomly. Everyone laughed, including the little girl who realized that maybe some adventures are best enjoyed together.

3. At closing time, an old man walked into the QuikTrip and asked the clerk, ‘Do you mind if I leave my lucky penny here overnight? It always brings me good luck.’ The next morning, everyone noticed that the penny had vanished—except for one curious thing: every cash register started ringing non-stop until it was retrieved. Soon enough, a delivery driver came in and joked, 'I’ll bet that penny is hiding somewhere, laughing its little metal head off!' Before long, the whole store was searching—and sure enough, there it was under the counter, still shiny and unharmed. The clerk smiled, saying, 'Guess it wasn’t ready to part with its lucky charm after all.'

4. At dawn, when the QuikTrip gas pumps were still cold, a faint humming sound could be heard coming from behind the convenience store. Curious, an early-rising delivery driver approached the source of the noise and found an old radio blinking on a shelf inside. Turns out, every morning at sunrise, the radio would come alive with static and old-timey music until someone flipped the switch. Since then, locals joke that QuikTrip’s morning playlist is curated by some forgotten neighbor who never left.