Love is in the C-Store Air

Love is eternal—especially when a couple’s love for a certain convenience store is involved.

Love is in the C-Store Air

December 2021   minute read

A Wisconsin couple not only declared their love for each other but also Kwik Trip when the duo took their wedding photos at a Janesville, Wisconsin, location. Mark Steinke and Ashley Ormes were already married before the shoot, but they couldn’t resist taking more photographs at one of their favorite spots, which happens to be a favorite of the wedding photographer as well. The couple took various pictures throughout the Kwik Trip, including one on the forecourt with a gas nozzle in Steinke’s hand, one of them smooching while cheers-ing with Big Buddy cups and one of Steinke “proposing” to Ormes with a doughnut. They cut the doughnut together to celebrate, and of course, fed it to each other in true wedding cake fashion.

Convenience Store Crooning

Bear Bailey was like many other TikTok users trying to get their singing voices heard via the platform. The 33-year-old crooner was doing relatively well with followers on his account, but once he started singing at the Super Serve convenience store near his home in Houma, Louisiana, his TikTok fame exploded. Cashier Melissa McGee and her daughters, Renee Hayes and Ashley McGee, also cashiers, take turns asking Bailey to sing a song when he approaches the counter, drink in hand. The first few videos were of him singing acapella, and then the cashiers started playing the songs over speakers while he covered the music with his impressive pipes. In October 2020, before the gas station serenades took off, he had less than 140,000 followers, and now he has 3.1 million. The artists he covers have even taken notice—country music legend Keith Urban played one of his covers at his concert, and Clay Walker played Bailey’s cover of his song while he commented and complimented his singing.

Trucker Doppelgänger

Look twice next time you’re at a truck stop in Celina, Tennessee. You might just spot celebrity comedian Amy Schumer—or at least someone who looks just like her. Truck driver and Schumer lookalike Amelia often stops at Celina 52 Truck Stop, and after the gas station tweeted about the resemblance, Schumer had to comment. “Wait, what’s going on at a truck stop?—me (tear drop emoji),” tweeted Schumer.

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