Ran into this same problem (or close to it,) at the car wash last week CW employees cleaned the inside and pulled into the wash lane, left it in neutral went thru fine, employee went to pull it out and didn't' t know it was running , tried to start it again in neutral and really confused the car. I got in and didn't se it was still in neutral so I got confused also. finally woke up and put it in park and shut it off left with the fob (about 4 feet from car,) and tried again, worked fine.
Not quite the same I guess. But was interesting.
John