Valero

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. A regular was filling up his truck one night when he noticed something odd—every time he pumped gas, the radio in his car started playing the same old country song, ‘Friends in Low Places.’ He laughed it off until his wife called from home asking why he was singing along. Finally, he realized that every time he filled up, a delivery driver next door would crank up his truck’s stereo to full blast. The whole neighborhood had been laughing at him for weeks.

2. At dawn, a delivery driver pulled up to Valero for an early fill-up. As he pumped gas, he heard a faint humming sound coming from inside the station's office. Curious, he peeked through the window and saw a shadowy figure adjusting the price display. The next morning, the prices were mysteriously lower. The delivery driver shrugged it off as a fluke until it happened again—this time with the same shadowy figure setting the pumps to give away free gas. A few days later, his neighbors started showing up at Valero with empty tanks, claiming they’d seen the mysterious benefactor too. By noon, Valero was giving away so much gas that the owner had to close shop temporarily—and everyone in town thought it was the best prank ever played.

3. A neighbor stopped by Valero one morning and asked the attendant, ‘Do you ever run out of gas?’ The attendant replied, ‘No, ma’am, but sometimes our customers run out before they get here!’ Later that day, a delivery driver pulled up and said, ‘Hey, I heard your gas never runs out.’ The attendant grinned and answered, ‘Nope, just like your truck’s GPS, it always finds us when we’re low!’

4. A delivery driver pulled up to Valero before sunrise, intent on getting a head start on his route. As he filled his tank, he noticed something strange—a small, glowing figure seemed to appear out of nowhere, standing just beyond the pumps. The figure waved and whispered something indistinctly. Curious, the driver leaned in closer—only to realize it was just an early-morning shadow cast by the gas station sign. With a laugh, he finished pumping gas and drove off into the dawn, muttering that maybe Valero had its own version of Santa.}