QuikTrip

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. At QuikTrip late one night, a delivery driver asked the clerk, ‘Do you ever see that old lady sitting in her car outside?’ The next morning, everyone noticed she’d been parked there every day since dawn. Finally, someone asked the clerk if they could wake her up. To everyone’s surprise, it was just an elderly woman who came for coffee every morning before work. She always paid with exact change and never said a word. From then on, QuikTrip became known as the place where your morning cup of Joe might be served by the quietest regular around.

2. At QuikTrip early morning, a gas station attendant heard an odd humming sound coming from the parking lot. Curious, he stepped outside only to see a neon-green shopping cart slowly rolling towards the store. Curious, he followed it inside, and just as he reached for his walkie-talkie, the cart stopped in front of the candy aisle. A friendly voice called out from behind him: ‘Hey, can you help me find these?’ Turned out, it was just a neighborhood kid with a broken remote control. The attendant shook his head and smiled, thinking, ‘Another day at QuikTrip—where even shopping carts know their way around.’

3. At QuikTrip, a customer found an old, dusty harmonica in the gas pump nozzle holder. Nobody knew whose it was or why it was there. One day, a delivery driver joked that maybe it belonged to Elvis Presley himself, who once filled up here decades ago. Soon enough, customers started bringing in their own old instruments—an accordion, a banjo, even a ukulele. The manager finally posted a sign: ‘Leave your musical treasure here, but please take something back.’ And so, QuikTrip became not just a gas station, but a makeshift music museum, with neighbors stopping by to swap stories and strum along together.

4. At dawn, when most QuikTrips are just opening their doors, a jogger passing by noticed something unusual—an old arcade game had mysteriously appeared next to the gas pumps. Curious, the jogger approached and saw an ancient Pac-Man cabinet, its lights dimly glowing in the pre-dawn light. A delivery driver, arriving early for his shift, happened to glance out the window and exclaimed, 'That’s my kid’s dream come true!' Soon, QuikTrip became known as the place where you could fill up your tank and score some high points too. The arcade stayed until someone finally recognized it as part of a vintage collection from a local museum.