Conoco

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. At Conoco, a regular always paid with the same twenty-dollar bill. One day, the cashier noticed something odd—each time he came in, the bill had a different date stamp from a random year. Finally, the curious cashier decided to keep track of the dates. It turned out that every time the man visited, he was paying for gas from a different decade—1987 one week, 1999 another, and even 2008 once. When asked why, the regular simply smiled and said, ‘I like to mix things up.’ The cashier shrugged and thought, ‘Well, if it keeps him happy…’

2. At Conoco, a delivery driver noticed an odd smell every morning around eight o’clock. It wasn’t gasoline or anything obvious—it was more like freshly baked cookies wafting through the air. One day, a delivery driver followed his nose and found a tiny door leading into the station’s basement. Inside he saw an old man in overalls, baking cookies on an ancient stove. ‘Why are you baking here?’ asked the perplexed driver. The old man replied, smiling, ‘I’m just making sure everyone gets their daily dose of sweetness!’

3. At Conoco, a delivery driver noticed that every Tuesday afternoon, a strange shadow seemed to follow him inside the station. Curious, he mentioned it to his co-workers, and soon everyone was watching for the mysterious shadow on Tuesdays. Turned out, it was just their neighbor’s cat, who followed him everywhere because she thought he had treats in his truck. The delivery driver affectionately named her ‘Tuesday’.

4. At Conoco, a neighbor asked curiously one day: ‘Why does the gas pump sometimes whisper your name?’ Another customer, a delivery driver, overheard it and joked, ‘It must be the spirit of the old owner, who never liked being called late for dinner!’ The whispering continued until one day, an engineer confessed that the pumps were just picking up faint radio signals from nearby construction sites.