About this location
A few stories people tell about this place
1. One morning, a delivery driver asked the attendant: ‘Why does everyone wave at that old truck parked outside?’ The attendant shrugged and said: ‘Oh, they do? I’ve never noticed.’ Finally, an old lady approached the counter and whispered to the attendant: ‘I think it’s his lucky truck—he always waves when he sees me!’ The next day, every customer who walked in started waving at the truck too—just because.
2. At night, when the station was almost empty, an old sign above the cash register started flickering on and off. The attendant shrugged it off until one day, a regular noticed: 'Hey, Shell, looks like your ghost just turned on the TV'. Finally, the manager called in an electrician who fixed the sign—and the ‘ghost’ never appeared again. But from then on, whenever a delivery driver or a neighbor popped in for gas, they’d ask, ‘Seen our new TV yet?’
3. At dawn, a jogger passing by Shell noticed something odd: why did every car pull over and exchange nods with no one inside? Curious, she slowed down and saw that each car had just a sleeping dog in it. Turned out, a local delivery driver was using Shell as his makeshift kennel during morning deliveries, letting his canine passengers stretch their legs before work. The jogger laughed, realizing she’d been part of an early-morning dog-walking convoy.
4. A curious tourist approached the attendant one afternoon and asked: 'Why do people always stop here for just a minute?' The attendant smiled knowingly. ‘They’re not stopping for just any old minute,’ he said. ‘They come in because our coffee’s stronger than their willpower.’ The curious tourist laughed, shook his head, and walked away—only to return five minutes later, drawn like a moth to the neon sign.