Both of today's stories are about people who made big choices that they thought would improve their lives.

But neither of them really took the time to actually learn exactly what they were signing up for.

And that led to disaster.

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Okay, let's get into our first story called Dreamcar. At 8 a.m. on June 8th, 2015, 76-year-old James Lee Rogers parked his beautiful red corvette

in the parking lot of a waffleaffle House in Port Arthur, Texas.

And as he pulled that car into the lot, I mean, James, he just felt so proud to be driving this

vehicle.

This was a 2007 C-6 Chevy Corvette, pristine condition, and it was exactly the car that James

had been dreaming about like his whole life.

I mean, it drove amazing, it looked incredible, and more than that, added all these modern elements to it.

I mean, it didn't even have regular door handles. Everything was like push buttons and electric.

I mean, to him, owning this car was like owning a really flashy sports car, and he thought that, you know, anybody who saw him driving it, they knew this guy had made it.

And on top of having this really cool car, James also had like a pretty awesome life here in Port Arthur.

I mean, he had lots of family in the area. He had grown up here. He loved living here.

But he also really loved this particular Waffle House. It was where he went basically every

morning in his flashy car to get his coffee. But, you know, it wasn't just their coffee that he was

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