I used to have this neighbor who worked at Loral. Designing spy sats... We used to have this "language" whereby I would ask him a question while he washed his

I used to have this neighbor who worked at Loral. Designing spy sats... We used to have this "language" whereby I would ask him a question while he washed his car. If he washed left (wax on) it was 'yes' - if washed right 'wax off' it was 'no' So I would ask him all sorts of questions about the capabilities of the spy sats loral was building and through that simple interaction, was able to learn a lot about sats... --- I have never uttered this story before.