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Women pump gas now

The following is supposedly a true story. To be included, besides being true, the story is most likely strange, weird, surprising, or funny.

January 16, 1993

Escondido attorney Ben Echeverria filed a $2 million lawsuit in August against Texaco Inc. and a local gas station manager because station attendants were pumping gas for women at self-service prices, but not for men.

The station almost immediately stopped its practice and forced women to start pumping for themselves.