Sunoco

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. At night, when the pumps clicked softly in the empty parking lot, a little boy would appear from nowhere. He’d run towards the Sunoco station, pointing excitedly at something only he could see—until one day, an old delivery driver noticed him too. Finally, someone called out to the boy: ‘Hey kid, what’s so special over there?’ The boy turned around and pointed up at the neon sign above the gas station, grinning. ‘It says “Open” even though it’s closed!’ Turns out, the sign had been flickering for years, but no one ever bothered to fix it until that curious child showed up.

2. One morning, a delivery driver noticed something odd on the gas station’s counter: an old, rusty key ring with no tag or explanation. Curious, he picked it up and found himself drawn back every day after that. Finally, one evening, while cleaning up, an old lady approached him. ‘That’s my husband’s keyring,’ she smiled. ‘He always came here for coffee before work.’ The delivery driver burst out laughing—everyday he’d been drinking her special blend without even knowing its history. ‘I’ll make you another cup,’ she said warmly.

3. At closing time, when the last pump clicked off and the lights dimmed, a mysterious voice crackled over Sunoco’s intercom: ‘Fill her up with gratitude today!’ No one knew whose voice it was or why only they could hear it. One day, an old man pulled up and asked, 'What does “fill her up with gratitude” even mean?' The voice replied, 'It means fill your tank, sir!' Everyone laughed, realizing that maybe the voice wasn’t so mysterious after all.

4. At closing time, when the last pump clicked off and the lights dimmed, a regular shouted into the empty station: ‘Hey, Sunoco, you still open?’ The gas attendant’s voice echoed eerily from nowhere: ‘I’m closed, pal!’ Then, an old man in a pickup truck emerged from the shadows, waving his credit card: ‘But I always pay on my way out.’