Valero

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. At Valero, a little boy noticed something odd one morning. Every time he approached the gas station, his toy car seemed to speed up on its own near the pumps. Curious, the boy asked an old delivery driver why his toy car behaved that way. The driver smiled and said, ‘Son, it’s not your car—it’s just the magnetic pull of our new fuel blend!’ Everyone laughed, and from then on, Valero became known for its mysteriously fast toy cars.

2. At Valero, a delivery driver once left an unusual package in the loading bay. No one paid much attention until customers started finding mysterious items in their gas tanks. Finally, it turned out that a neighborhood cat had been using the gas station’s roof as its personal perch and dropping tiny toys into cars’ tanks for fun. The packages stopped appearing when someone put up a little birdhouse on top of the building—apparently, the feline found a new hobby.

3. At Valero, a neighbor stopped for gas one night and saw something strange through the pumps. A shadowy figure seemed to be refueling invisible cars. Curious, he approached the pumps but found nothing unusual—just an empty lot next door. The next morning, he discovered that Valero had installed new LED lights, which sometimes created eerie shadows at night. Since then, locals joke that Valero’s secret service is helping ghostly drivers top off their tanks.

4. At Valero, a regular exclaimed one day, ‘I’m getting more than just gas here!’ He’d been noticing that every time he filled up, the attendant’s reflection in the pump screen seemed to wink back at him. Curious, our regular decided to test it out. Next time he stopped by, he brought along his friend—a delivery driver who happened to be wearing mirrored shades. Sure enough, as soon as the pump started gushing fuel, both reflections wiggled their eyebrows at each other. The whole place erupted into laughter, and from then on, Valero became known for its unique brand of customer service.