Mixed Signals

With so many communication problems between humans and with all of the confusion in the world today, you would think that something as simple as having your car washed by an automatic car wash would not be the major source of mixed signals in your daily activity, right? Well think again..... As I pulled up and deposited my $7 for the "best wash money can buy" (this is actually what the man in the machine said to me in that crazy computer voice) I thought that in a quick 5 minutes or so I would leave with a clean car - it's just that simple. That was until I drove forward, as the light read, then stopped, as the light read, and then backed up, just like the flashing light told me to do - Damn! I must have missed the sensor pads (I only say that because that is what Emily said, three, four or five times...) So I proceeded to drive forward, stop, back up, stop, drive forward, stop, back up, stop for another 6 minutes at least. That was a minute longer than I expected to be in the car wash and it hasn't even started washing the damn car! I don't know if I was actually doing something wrong or if the automatic car wash isn't really automatic and there was some guy sitting in a booth watching me go back and forth just laughing his ass off.... I actually hope that was the case.