Midas

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. At Midas garage, a little boy pointed excitedly as he walked past one morning. His dad looked puzzled until he saw it too—a tire spinning slowly on its own outside the workshop door. Curious, they approached closer and watched in amazement as the tire rotated ever so gently. A nearby mechanic smiled and explained, ‘Ah, that’s just our new self-balancing tire maintenance system.’ The dad shook his head, smiling: ‘Guess I’ll never look at tires the same way again!’

2. A delivery driver pulled up to Midas one afternoon, frowning at his dashboard light. Suddenly, an old man in coveralls appeared from behind the counter and started humming an unfamiliar tune. The old man reached under the hood, muttered something about ‘old faithful,’ and waved a grease-stained rag. The driver watched, perplexed, as the engine purred like a content cat. ‘That’ll be twenty bucks,’ said the mechanic with a smile, then vanished into thin air. The driver paid up, shook his head, and drove off, muttering, “Weird place, but my truck runs like new.”

3. At Midas garage, an old mechanic grumbled under his breath while tightening a bolt. ‘This thing’s been acting up again,’ he muttered. Suddenly, a young girl with braided hair skipped into view, pointing at something on the hood of his car and giggling. ‘What did you point at?’ asked the mechanic, squinting suspiciously. She just laughed and said, “It looks like your car is trying to tell you something!” He shook his head, smiling, and finished the job quicker than usual. Later that night, over a cup of tea, he found a note stuck to his toolbox: “Happy fixing! Next time—maybe listen better.”

4. At Midas garage, a sign above the entrance read: ‘If your engine is whisper-quiet, come back and see us.’ One morning, a neighbor drove in with a car so silent not even birds chirped around it. The mechanic raised an eyebrow and said, ‘That’s odd…’ He popped the hood, but found nothing unusual. Finally, he asked the neighbor if anyone had recently borrowed his car. Turns out, the neighbor’s wife used it that morning—with the stereo cranked up full blast.