[Ads-l] Real Women Don't Pump Gas (Re: to ship)

[Mark Mandel]

I don't *want* to pump myself, thank you very much, especially in public!
Mark

On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 11:30 AM Barretts Mail <mail.barretts at gmail.com>
wrote:

> ...
> The expression about women is not in the archives. There is a book “Real
> Women Don’t Pump Gas” (
> https://www.worldcat.org/title/real-women-dont-pump-gas/oclc/832549304&referer=brief_results
> <
> https://www.worldcat.org/title/real-women-dont-pump-gas/oclc/832549304&referer=brief_results>),
> but it wasn’t published until 1983. I don’t see anything earlier in Google
> Books. Perhaps my memory of the 70s is simply misplaced.
>
> An important element to the expression is that filling stations often had
> two options: pump yourself of have an attendant do it for you.
>

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