About this location
A few stories people tell about this place
1. At BP gas station in downtown Chicago, a regular muttered one morning, ‘I swear, every time I fill up here, my car talks back.’ A delivery driver shrugged, leaning on his truck. ‘Mine doesn’t talk,’ he said, ‘it just honks when it’s empty.’ A neighbor chimed in with a smile: ‘Well, that’s because your tank has better manners than yours!’ And they both laughed, watching the gas pump click contentedly.
2. A delivery driver pulled up to the BP station late one night, fumbling with his keys. Suddenly, he noticed an old man walking towards him from inside the store—only the lights were off. ‘What are you doing out here?’ asked the driver. The old man smiled and replied, ‘Just checking if your tank was full.’ Turned out, it always was. From then on, everyone called him ‘BP’s Secret Helper.’
3. At BP gas station on Route 66, a tourist asked one day, 'Do you ever see ghosts here?' The attendant replied, 'Only when it's slow.' One night, an old man walked in and said, ‘I’ve heard you see ghosts.’ The attendant grinned, ‘Not anymore—we installed security cameras last week!’ The old man nodded wisely, ‘Ah, that explains why I never saw any myself—they don’t like being recorded.’
4. At BP gas station on a quiet suburban street, a neighbor once wondered aloud, ‘Why does that old man always pay exactly twenty dollars every Monday?’ It turned out he was paying for his weekly lottery ticket, which had finally paid off one Friday—and now everyone in town knew him as Mr. Fortunate Filling Station.