The Powerball

A Powerball lottery ticket sits on a window sill, waiting to be a worthless scrap of paper.

Tomorrow morning, the Complete and Total Loser will wake up and hear on the radio that the winning Powerball lottery ticket had been sold in a small town far from where the Loser is wasting his meaningless life. 
No matter. He finds that the fantasies he had after buying his ticket (five of them, actually) were worth it, even though revenge factored into some of them and he dislikes that aspect of them.