Costco Gasoline

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. At Costco Gasoline, a regular always parked in the same spot and filled up without ever getting out of his car. One day, an announcement crackled over the PA: ‘Would the owner of a black briefcase please come to customer service?’ Finally, someone from management approached the car. The regular rolled down his window, still not moving. A manager asked, ‘Sir, would you mind coming inside? We found your briefcase.’ The man nodded, got out, and walked into the store. Inside, he was signing for a new membership card while a delivery driver stood nearby, muttering, ‘I’ve been filling up here for years… wonder why they never lost my briefcase!’

2. At Costco Gasoline, one day a delivery driver noticed something unusual on the pump handle—a tiny note reading ‘Fill me up!’ with an arrow pointing to his truck’s tank. The delivery driver chuckled and filled up the truck. Later that evening, he mentioned it to a neighbor who happened to work there. It turned out to be a prank from a regular customer who always got free gas when someone topped off his car. Everyone had a good laugh—and now, whenever anyone sees that note, they know exactly what to do.

3. At Costco Gasoline, people often wondered why a neighbor always stopped exactly three minutes before the pump clicked off. It turned out that every time he filled up, his car’s odometer would roll over to a new mileage milestone—round numbers like 123,456 miles. So, he’d wait precisely until the last possible second so as not to miss it. A regular at Costco joked that he was chasing some kind of mileage karma.

4. At Costco Gasoline, someone started asking aloud: ‘Why does that guy always pay with the same exact change?’ Soon everyone was curious—was he a secret agent or something? But then one day, an old delivery driver joked, ‘He’s just our neighborhood billionaire!’ Turns out, he’d bought so much stuff from Costco over the years that they gave him lifetime membership and free gas. Moral of the story: shop smart, save big.’