QuikTrip

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. At dawn, when QuikTrip’s neon sign flickered on like an old friend greeting the morning, a delivery driver noticed something strange. The coffee machine seemed to hum in rhythm with the distant rooster crowing outside. The delivery driver tilted his head curiously and smiled, thinking maybe it was just the early-morning quiet playing tricks on him. Suddenly, a neighbor popped their head out of the window across the street, yawning and saying, ‘Hey, QuikTrip, you’re open too early!’ Turns out, the coffee machine had been keeping perfect time with the roosters for years—just no one ever bothered to check until now.

2. One morning, as a delivery driver pulled up to QuikTrip for coffee, he noticed something odd on the gas pump display: ‘Fill up with luck today—pump 3 only.’ Curious, he filled his tank and drove off. From then on, everyone tried their luck at pump 3—and every now and then someone would claim they’d had better service or luck after using it. Soon enough, word spread around town that QuikTrip’s Pump 3 was like a charm. A regular customer even started leaving lucky pennies next to the nozzle. One day, an old man came in complaining about bad luck. The clerk laughed and said, 'Try Pump 3, sir!' To everyone's surprise, the old man's day turned around—he won a small lottery prize later that week.

3. At closing time, a night security guard whispered to himself, ‘I’ll be damned if that QuikTrip sign isn’t winking at me.’ The next morning, no one could believe it—except maybe the security guard—when they found out the sign had been blinking all along due to a faulty LED bulb. The whole town laughed it off as just another QuikTrip oddity, and life went on with a newfound appreciation for the quirks of small-town convenience stores.

4. At closing time, the night security guard locked up QuikTrip and turned off the lights. Suddenly, someone called out from behind him: ‘Hey, don’t forget to check the vending machines!’ The guard chuckled, thinking it was just another prank. But when he checked, sure enough, a bag of chips was missing from the snack aisle. From then on, whenever anyone saw him leaving for the night, they’d yell, ‘Don’t forget the snacks!’