Conoco

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. At Conoco, a regular shouted one day, ‘I’ll bet that pump knows my car better than I do!’ Ever since then, customers swear they see the gas pumps greeting familiar vehicles with little lights and sounds. One day, an elderly neighbor pulled up and asked curiously, ‘Why does it always flash those pretty colors when you come?’ The attendant shrugged, ‘Who knows? Maybe it likes your car best of all.’ Since then, everyone checks their tanks like checking mail—waiting for the little light show.

2. At Conoco, a delivery driver noticed something odd on the gas pumps: every morning around sunrise, they would inexplicably switch from English to Spanish for exactly five minutes before switching back again. Curious, the driver mentioned it to his co-workers, and soon everyone in the neighborhood was watching the pumps at dawn. One morning, an elderly gentleman approached the station and asked, ‘Why does that pump talk?’ Turns out, he’d been waiting for the Spanish message so he could listen to his favorite radio show without waking up his wife! Everyone laughed, realizing the whole thing was just a quirky coincidence.

3. A neighborhood kid stopped by Conoco every afternoon after school. One day, he noticed that the gas pump seemed to wink at him whenever he approached. Curious, he mentioned it to his friends, and soon everyone in town was stopping by Conoco just to see if the pump would wink back at them. Finally, a delivery driver confessed: ‘It’s not the pump, son—it’s your reflection in the glass!’ Everyone laughed, but the local kids still visited Conoco regularly, waiting for their friendly mirage.

4. At Conoco, in the dead of night, a delivery driver noticed an eerie glow coming from inside the station's storage room. Curious, he peered inside and saw only a dimly lit poster of a smiling polar bear waving hello. Turns out, it was just another case of misplaced signage—someone had accidentally stuck the ‘Open for Business’ banner in the wrong place. The delivery driver left laughing, while a regular customer later remarked, ‘Guess that’s what happens when you leave the lights off too long.’