My New Friend Named Pats

Yesterday was a total BUST!

Woke up and our morning was same old.. but decided to take the kids with me to do some grocery shopping.. havent done that in awhile so we were off...

with the help of Mone of course.. Me and 4 kids at the store ALONE is like asking a bee to sting me in the eye.. haha

But anyway... at the store we get our stuff and put the goods in the trunk.. as soon as we get in the car the alarm goes off...

It's happened before and wasn't anything huge to me.. so I use the remote on my key to turn it off..

Now, apparently if you make too many attempts on turning it off you trigger something called PATS... pats is short for Passive Anti-Theft System...

Although PATS is my security and ultimately is the safety for my car, we're not very good friends right now.

So now that PATS has been triggered.. I call FORD... I've always loved the Ford brand.. we have a couple Ford vehicles in my family and we've never had an issue with them.. and I guess technically still to this day we haven't..

Ford tells me, I have to get it towed to a dealership. Now, that by itself told me... MONEY MONEY MONEY!... So instead of calling the tow company, who do I call? JUNE! hahaha pluse, he wasn't working so it was convenient.

June comes to the store.. him and money try and "bypass" the security system and disable it.. NOPE.. didn't work.. June calls Ford, kinda gave them a hard time about having to tow it to the dealership and really just tried to get them to tell him how to disable it.. Ford says, they can't, the car has to be reset at a dealership..

I stood there in the hot sun for a good hour and a half watching all these other people drive off with their "older" cars.. and I wished mine was like theirs.. lol And don't get me wrong I'm truly grateful for the protection that comes installed in the car.

The tow home $$, The Diagnosis $$, The fix $$...