holy cow the plot thickens. they called me telling me that the car was done, so i walked on down there and paid the bill $15.45. Then when I got into the car there was this exclamation point and something written in kanji showing up in red on my idiot light panel. I started to pull out and found that the car was being REALLY sluggish. I drove around the auto shop to see if it was just the messed up pavement, but my car would not stop being so sluggish and that little red light wouldn't go away. soooo I pulled back around to park and go back inside. I went in to ask if something possibly hadn't gotten hooked up right and saw that several of the workers were snickering (quietly at least). One of the guys was acting all concered and came back out to my car with me. When we got the there he said "yeah, just turn off the emergency break, these guys like to have a little fun from time to time." I was baffled when he said this, cause i had checked the emergency break briely before I had even started the car (though who in the world would bother to use an emergency break on an automatic that was just gonna be sitting in a nice flat parking lot) sooo I get back in and discover a little piece of cardboard under the brake. It was just small enough to make it look like it was turned off, but just big enough to effect the car... Needless to say I was pretty ticked off.. I mean, driving around with the emergency brake on can't be good for my car... so yeah, in the end I was only charged $4.95ish... and both brake lights work now, turns out we had just blown a fuse.