So, imagine you’re a janitor. You mop floors. You empty trash. Your dreams? Yeah, those usually get shelved somewhere between unpaid overtime and that mysterious smell in the hallway no one wants to deal with.

But then one day, you stop for gas, spend five bucks on a scratch ticket instead of, say, an overpriced latte, and BOOM—life punches you in the face with $1 million.

That’s exactly what happened to John Balsam, a Springfield custodian who just flipped his reality like it was a Netflix show no one saw coming. One $5 “Stacks of Cash” ticket later, and he’s $1 million richer. Well, sort of—he took the lump sum of $650,000 before taxes, because who trusts annual payments in this economy?

John scratched the ticket after a day at work, probably expecting another “sorry, try again” moment—and instead got a golden ticket to not be broke. “I was scratching the ticket, then boom, my life changed!” he told Lottery officials, still presumably trying to process what just happened to his life.

So what’s he gonna do with the cash? Buy a house? Yep. Save a bit? Of course. But most importantly—finally buy that red pickup truck he’s been dreaming about since adolescence. Because when you’ve been fantasizing about a truck for 30 years, and you suddenly have hundreds of thousands of dollars, you damn well buy the truck.

The gas station gets $10,000 just for selling the ticket, which is probably more than they make on beef jerky in a month. Meanwhile, John beat the odds of 1 in over 4 million to win the final top prize.

So here’s your inspirational takeaway: You can work hard your whole life and never catch a break—or you can accidentally win the lottery while buying gas. Either way, life is absurd. Might as well enjoy the ride.

And maybe get that red truck. You’ve earned it.