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WINNIPEG, Canada — In a run-away streak of random kindness, 228 people picked up the tab for the person behind them in the drive-through line.
"It was an avalanche of kindness," Tim Hortons coffee spokeswoman Michelle Robichaud told the Star on Monday.
At about 10 a.m. on Dec. 21, a customer paid of the order behind them at the drive through of the popular coffee chain known colloquially as "Timmie's." Then the next customer did the same. And the next. And the next.
The chain of generosity wasn't broken for three hours until one customer didn't pay for the three coffees in the order behind him, though the person in front of him had paid for his four coffees.
"There was a lot of energy in the store," said Thompson. "Our team was really excited and shouting out the number of pay it forwards all morning."
The trend of paying for the order behind you has been picking up at Timmie's, according to the Vancouver Sun, thanks to this chain of coffee kindness. Stores in Vancouver and Winnipeg, as well as Ontario and Alberta provinces, have reported customers "pouring it forward."
