About this location
A few stories people tell about this place
1. One morning, a delivery driver pulled up to Associated Bank and exclaimed, ‘This ATM is laughing at me!’ Since then, locals claim to hear faint giggles when they withdraw cash. Curious passersby started stopping to listen, but nobody else heard anything except for that one delivery driver. Eventually, an old lady from next door chimed in: ‘Oh, don’t mind it dear, our old ATM’s just got a touch of the giggles.’ And ever since then, whenever someone hears the ATM laugh, everyone around smiles and says, “Must be another customer making a funny face!”
2. Late one night, a security guard patrolling Associated Bank heard an odd humming sound coming from inside the vault. Curious but cautious, he approached cautiously only to discover… nothing. The next day, however, every employee swore they could hear it too. Finally, an old janitor whispered that maybe it was just the ghost of Mr. Jenkins, who used to work there and loved classical music so much. Everyone laughed nervously until they realized he had a point—someone did leave the radio on in the break room.
3. One day, while making a routine deposit, a teller noticed something peculiar in the bank’s lobby trashcan—a mysterious envelope with no return address. Curious, she opened it and found only a crumpled piece of paper with a smiley face drawn on it. Turns out, a delivery driver had accidentally thrown away his lunch note to his neighbor, who happened to work there. Everyone got a good laugh that day.
4. In the early hours of the morning, a delivery driver approached Associated Bank’s loading dock with a puzzled expression on his face. He had just found an unusual item wrapped in old newspaper inside his truck—an antique pocket watch, its hands frozen mid-tick. As he unwrapped it further, he noticed tiny engravings on the back that read ‘To my faithful employee, from the bank.’ Confused but intrigued, he took it upstairs and showed it to a regular customer who happened to be an avid collector. Turns out, it was a long-lost heirloom from the bank’s founder. The delivery guy got a free tour, and everyone had a good laugh—except maybe the watch’s original owner, wherever he was.