If you're going to waste a perfectly crisp Washington on a one-in-a-bagillion chance of winning the lottery, at least check to see if your impulse buy was worth the shame.

One lottery hopeful (or not-so-hopeful) has yet to discover that his or her ticket is loaded with five out of six of the winning numbers — enough to rake in $197,117.

It's painful to think about: the golden ticket crumpled in the garbage with a corner-store receipt, or living the pathetic life of a coffee-table coaster. Please, for all our sakes, if you bought a Mega Millions ticket from Lorena Market at 3360 E. Olympic Blvd. five months ago, turn that shit in already! If not —

all $197,117 will go to California education on Jan. 31. That's, like, a single superintendant's worth of pilfered benefits. Wouldn't you rather see a shiny new Porsche in your driveway? Or at least two-thirds of an Akita show dog? Considering the location of the ticket purchase — no offense Lorena — we're guessing the purchaser could use the proceeds. We'll throw in a Yelp review of the magical market, just for the heck of it:

This is a mini mart type place. They have an assortment of junk food, candy and basic groceries. I bought some of their starbucks coffee bottles and they were expired Ever since then I've only bought random junk food and charcoal here.

Here are the five loaded numbers (go check your coasters, just in case!):

22, 56, 13, 20, 4

And according to the California Lottery's website, there's another loser/winner missing out on an even fatter prize in Orange County:

The mystery winner purchased their ticket at Al's Market, which is located at 7062 Westminster Boulevard in Westminster. The ticket matched five of six numbers 3, 52, 28, 8, 21 – and missed only the Mega number of 43.

For the rest of you still on the hoping end of the stick, get stoked: The jackpot is at its second largest sum ever, or $355,000. Check the Lotto's Winning Numbers page at 8 p.m. tonight.