The Waitress at the 24-Hour Truck Stop Near Tonopah

Luna met a waitress named Della at a truck stop off Route 6 near Tonopah, Nevada—a place that seemed to exist in a crack between hours, where the coffee was always stale and the fluorescent lights hummed a note just sharp enough to make your teeth ache. It was February, around 2 a.m., and Luna was the only customer besides a man in a billed cap who never touched his pie. Della told her about the regular who came in every night at the same time, ordered black coffee and a grilled cheese, and left a single dollar bill on the counter. She said he never spoke. She said his face was the same every time, but she could never remember it after he left. Then she showed Luna the stack of dollar bills she kept under the register—each one folded exactly once, each one from the same man, stretching back seventeen years. And then she asked Luna if she believed that some people weren't really there at all. #RestStop9 #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #TruckStop #Tonopah #Nevada #Route6 #Waitress #Della #TheRegular #DollarBills #Grief #Loneliness #Memory #NightShift #Desert #FluorescentLight #February Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo