Alright, let’s talk about the kind of moment that makes you question reality — or at least your morals at the gas station counter.

Some poor soul in New Jersey walks into a convenience store to buy scratch-offs (because the stock market is too slow) and spots a rogue $100 bill on the counter. Now, most people would quietly thank the universe, pocket it, and pretend they didn’t see anything. But not this guy. Nope. Our accidental saint turns around, asks the crowd if anyone lost it, and insists the clerk put it in an envelope for the "lost and found" — because apparently, that's still a thing outside of middle school.

Everyone tells him he’s nuts. And honestly? Maybe he is.

But then — plot twist — he buys a few scratch-offs, probably thinking karma owes him a beer. Instead, karma slaps a $1 million top prize onto his ticket like it’s some cosmic cashback program for being a decent human being.

Cue the waterworks. He cries, he shakes, and the clerk tells him he’s holding the golden ticket like it’s a deleted scene from Willy Wonka: Jersey Edition.

He later tells lottery officials, “If I had taken that $100, I would’ve felt guilty and never bought the ticket.” Which is wild — because that might be the most financially valuable guilty conscience in history.

The guy’s plans? Buy a modest home and a decent car. Humble goals for someone who just won the kind of money that turns people into boat owners with questionable tattoos.

So yeah — maybe kindness doesn’t always pay off immediately, but every once in a while, the universe throws a million-dollar curveball to prove that doing the right thing isn’t totally overrated.