Big O Tires

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. At night, when no one was around, an old man in a trench coat would sit in the parking lot of Big O Tires. Every Wednesday, without fail, he’d pull out a strange-looking wrench and start humming to himself. The only sound was a soft clicking, like someone tuning an invisible car. Finally, on one particularly foggy Wednesday, a delivery driver noticed him. Curious, she slowed down and saw the old man tightening something intangible. ‘Excuse me,’ she asked, ‘are you fixing my car?’ He looked up, smiled, and replied, ‘No, dear, I’m just making sure yours won’t break anytime soon.’

2. At closing time, an ominous voice crackled over Big O Tires’ intercom: ‘Last tire for tonight… or forever?’ Employees shrugged it off as just another late-night prank until they started finding mysterious notes stuck inside each tire. Finally, one employee decided to check under the counter and found a tiny note: ‘Don’t worry, I’ll leave you ONE tire tonight.’ Turned out, it was just a practical joke played by a friendly neighborhood mechanic who loved their job too much.

3. One morning, a delivery driver noticed something peculiar on the loading dock—a large box marked simply ‘Free Tires.’ Curious, he opened it and found brand-new tires of every size and make. He took one home for his old car, another for his wife’s minivan, and soon everyone in town was getting free tires from Big O. A few weeks later, while delivering yet another tire, he spotted an elderly neighbor struggling with her car. He smiled, popped the tire onto her vehicle, and drove off—only realizing too late that it was the same exact tire he’d taken earlier himself.

4. Late one Friday afternoon, a delivery driver parked his truck outside Big O Tires and started unloading boxes. As he bent down to grab another package, he heard a soft thud from inside the warehouse. Curious, he peered into the shadows and saw… an old tire slowly rolling towards him! Turns out it was just an errant tire valve cap that had fallen off earlier. Relieved but embarrassed, our hero finished his task and went home, only to be greeted by a concerned neighbor asking if everything was okay—again.