From credit cards to identity theft

From the Boston Globe (and thanks to BostonGal):

One day you're an average citizen, managing the monthly bills, doing the 9-to-5 thing. The next day you stop for gas, scrape away a silver circle on a card, and become a millionaire. Or you call a phone 10 states away and learn a stranger is claiming to be you. What's it like to always leave home without the plastic? Or dream about opening your own cafe -- and then actually doing it? Or take time off and refocus your priorities by listening to a lama? Meet five folks who've encountered financial situations the rest of us only fantasize -- or fret -- about.

My favorite story -- the man who won a million dollars and celebrated by ordering take-out.