About this location
A few stories people tell about this place
1. At the Shell station in downtown Springfield, a regular shouted one morning, ‘Hey, look sharp!’ Everyone did—and saw nothing but their own reflection in the newly polished sign. A delivery driver then asked, ‘Isn’t that always there?’ A quiet voice from behind replied, ‘Only since yesterday.’ Everyone laughed and agreed it looked great—until they realized the sign had been shining like that for years.
2. At the Shell station on Route 66, a delivery driver asked one day, ‘Why does every old truck that pulls up here leave with a full tank?’ The attendant shrugged and said, ‘They’re all buying gas from my friend down the road.’ A delivery driver looked puzzled until his neighbor chimed in, laughing, ‘He owns both stations!’
3. At the Shell gas station in small-town Ohio, an old man complained one afternoon, ‘I swear, every time I fill up here, my car gets heavier!’ The attendant laughed and said, 'Sir, you're probably just filling up with lead-free!' The old man nodded wisely, smiling as he drove off. From then on, whenever anyone mentioned the mysterious weight gain at Shell, everyone knew exactly what was going on—except for those who never filled up there again.
4. At the Shell station near the old bridge, a delivery driver noticed something odd one night. The neon sign above flickered and spelled out messages no one had programmed it to say: 'Fill up for love today!' Curious, the delivery driver mentioned it to his neighbors. Soon everyone in town was stopping by Shell just to see if the sign would change again. It became a daily ritual—‘Fill up for love today!’—until one day, the sign suddenly switched off completely. No one knew why, but locals still joke that maybe the sign ran out of love.