You ever feel like life is just one long, painful grind? Like you're stuck in a never-ending loop of getting kicked in the teeth and told to keep smiling? Well, meet this guy—a construction worker from New Jersey who’s been getting his ass kicked by life and the lottery for decades. But, as of last month, the universe finally threw him a bone: a $1.7 million jackpot.
 

So, apparently, someone in the UK just got £83.4 million richer, and for nearly two weeks, they didn’t even bother to claim it. Imagine waking up one morning and realizing you’ve been sitting on a fortune while still complaining about your overpriced meal deals.

You know that moment when you do something nice for other people, and the universe decides to drop a big fat reward in your lap just for kicks? Yeah, that happened to a woman in Michigan this Christmas.

Let’s talk about luck. You know, the kind of luck that turns a random Tuesday grocery trip into the single greatest “impulse buy” of your life. That’s exactly what happened to Stephen and Shana Juhasz, a hardworking couple from Wind Gap, Pennsylvania. One moment, Shana’s picking up ice cream sandwiches and donuts for her daughter; the next, she’s holding a lottery ticket worth $7 million. Yes, seven million actual dollars.

So, imagine you’re 20 years old, living a regular life in Carlisle, and suddenly the universe decides to throw £7.5 million your way. What do you do? Quit your job, buy a superyacht, and spend your days sipping o-verpriced cocktails? If you’re James Clarkson, apparently not.

Sometimes, life throws you curveballs. Other times, it throws you a rude driver cutting you off on the highway. For one Maryland man, that annoyance turned into a $500,000 windfall—because he used the driver’s license plate numbers to play the lottery.

Let’s be real: most of us buy lottery tickets with about as much faith as we have in Santa Claus. But sometimes, the universe—or in this case, a $20 scratch-off ticket—delivers.

Take Darla Carpenter from New Hampton, Iowa. On Christmas morning, while the rest of us were faking excitement over socks and bath bombs, Darla scratched her way to a quarter-million-dollar miracle. Her husband had slipped a “Winter Winnings” lottery ticket into her stocking. Boom. $250K. Jackpot.