Nationwide

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. One stormy night, a delivery driver pulled up to Nationwide's loading dock with a heavy heart and a soggy package. As he unlocked the door, an eerie voice crackled over the intercom: 'Your claim is being processed... by someone who knows you're late.' The delivery driver froze for a moment, but then laughed nervously. ‘Late again, huh?’ he muttered under his breath. Just as he turned around, a friendly voice from behind said, “Hey, that’s okay—we’re always running a little behind here too.” It was just a neighbor dropping off some coffee. The story became a neighborhood joke ever since.

2. One morning, a Nationwide employee opened the mailroom door and found an old umbrella leaning against the wall. No one claimed it, so he hung it back out on the reception desk. For weeks, whenever customers left, they’d pick up another umbrella—only to return later, confused, because their own had been there all along. Finally, after months of this prank, a delivery driver arrived with a giant box labeled ‘Umbrellas.’ Inside were hundreds of identical umbrellas, each marked with different names like ‘Mr. Smith’ or ‘Ms. Johnson.’ The employees realized that someone was having fun—and everyone got a good laugh.

3. One day, a little girl walked into the Nationwide lobby, clutching her teddy bear tightly. As she approached the reception desk, she stopped abruptly, pointing excitedly at something on the wall. 'Mommy,' she whispered, 'why does that clock have two faces?' The receptionist smiled warmly and knelt down to meet the girl's eye level. "That's our special time-traveling clock," she explained with a twinkle in her eye. 'It shows both the past and present!' The girl nodded thoughtfully before running off, still holding onto her teddy bear. Later that afternoon, an ordinary delivery driver passing by noticed the same clock and wondered if it was really showing him his lunch break from ten years ago.

4. One afternoon, a Nationwide agent was showing a new client around the office when their dog suddenly froze in front of an old painting on the wall. The animal stared so intently that even the agent had to take a closer look—and noticed for the first time how the eyes of the portrait seemed to follow you as you moved. As they stood there, a delivery driver walked in and asked if anyone needed his package. Suddenly, both the agent and the client turned to see the eyes of the painting following them—right into the box he was holding! Everyone burst out laughing, realizing it was just another one of those optical illusion paintings.