Specifically, he remembered dropping the lottery ticket in the gutter and watching it wend its way down a storm drain on a small river created by the torrential rains.
He thought of calling his good friend Pennywise to see if he would lend a hand in retrieving the lottery ticket - but damn, Penny was on set filming a movie and could not help.
Tim continued on to 7-11 for a coffee only to find it closed for a surprise health inspection which was conducted by Norman Clature who made sure everything was up to his standards.
Unfortunately, Norman Clature's standards were limbo-stick low and so the establishment got an A-rating despite having poisoned several customers in the last month.
Meanwhile, in the back, the city garbage collector was idly watching the dumpster full of old cups and stir-sticks being upended, when he noticed something unusual.
But, in a twist of fate, the bigwigs at Budweiser bribed the CDC to change the name to "Corona Virus", thereby casting aspersions onto one of their competitors....
However, the drug lords who had purchased the Corona company as a legitimate front for their nefarious dealings took umbrage at this and swore revenge.
The problem was, when that statement was fact-checked, it turned out to be erroneous: wild horses could drag them away, and quite easily too as it turned out.