<human>: Can you condense the text into three sentences or less?

Here's mine: 

As a teenager with limited means, having enough gas to get places in my hoopty of a car was a touch and go process.  Generally, I would manage to gather $3-$5 cash if I needed it, and back then (early 90's) that could get me by for a couple of days.  Purchasing gasoline with cash and only a limited amount (i.e. not a fill-up) always involved paying the cashier first so that the pump would stop at the amount paid.

So, one day, I was in a big hurry to get to a soccer tournament and my car ran out of gas about 100 yards from the gas station with $3.25 in my pocket.  Undaunted, I emptied the 1 gallon water jug I had in the back floorboard for when the car would overheat, trekked the 100 yards to the store, and bought $0.25 in gas (roughly 1/4 gallon), pumped it into the milk jug, walked back to the car, then fueled the car enough to drive to the gas pump.  This worked out fine.

Once I'd gotten the car to the the pump, I went into the store a second time, paid for $3 in gas, walked back to the car, got in and drove off.

About 5 miles on my way, the car acted like it was running out of gas *again* then died.  Having run out of gas twice, at first I was sure I had a gas leak.  After all, I had *just bought* $3 worth.

I was about half way through with my walk back home that I entertained the possibility that I had driven off without pumping the gas.  This was confirmed by the very amused gas station clerk who refunded my $3.
<bot>: I paid for gas and drove off without pumping it, thus causing myself to run out of gas twice within a 5 mile stretch.