A Guy Who Returned A 1 Million Dollar Lottery Ticket To The Person Who Lost It Says He Has No Regrets

SALINA, Kan. — A Kansas man who returned a $1 million lottery ticket to a customer who left it on a store counter says he has no regrets about giving up the prize money. Kal Patel, whose parents own the Pit Stop convenience store in Salina, returned the ticket to a longtime customer after tracking him down in his car. “Good deeds come back to help you, and bad deeds come back to haunt you,” he said this week. “It felt good to find it and then find them.” The winner, who has chosen to remain anonymous, bought three tickets at a store in nearby Lincoln, but went to the Pit Stop — his neighborhood convenience store — to check if they were winners. The clerk checked two tickets and the winner accidentally left the third on the counter, The Salina Journal reported. When clerk Andy Patel ran the numbers and discovered it was a $1 million winner, he called Kal Patel.

I gotta be honest, I agree with the guy who gave the ticket back to the original owner. Call me a stupid Midwesterner or Iowa Nice or whatever but I would. I know I would. A lot of people pretend to be assholes but I think, when push comes to shove, they’d do the right thing. And it’s partially because of what the guy said. He said, “Good deeds come back to help you, and bad deeds come back to haunt you” and for some reason I believe that. I don’t believe in God. I don’t believe in Allah. I don’t believe in Zeus. I don’t believe in really anything. But for some reason I believe in karma. Why is that? I don’t know. It’s a very stupid thing to believe. Cause guess what? Good deeds don’t come back to help you. If I had to throw a percentage on it, I’d say less than 3% of good deeds come back. It’s stupid to even put a number on it cause nobody is keeping the stat sheet on which good deeds lead to helping you out in the future.

For instance, this guy could’ve kept that million dollar ticket, cashed it and lived a wayyyyyyyy better life than he was currently living. Despite what Puff Daddy and Mase said in the 90s, it’s actually Mo Money, Less Problems. Sure, if you get 10 billion dollars there’s gonna be obstacles that get in your way. Family problems and shit. But an extra million? In 2018 that’s just enough to pay off all your debt and live a debt-free life. This fella could’ve done that and it never would’ve come back to bite him. Karma is a lie. Take that ticket. Cash it. Live better. Nothing will happen. I respect him for giving it back cause we’re brainwashed by the same belief. Oh and I wouldn’t be able to deal with the crippling guilt.