Diners pay it forward, 167 times

A customer’s SCOTTSBURG, IND. — act of kindness at a southern Indiana McDonald’s sparked a chain reaction of niceness in its drivethru line.

Hunter Hostetler is a cashier at a McDonald’s in Scottsburg, about 50 miles north of Louisville, Ky. He says an older woman in the drive-thru Sunday decided to pay for the big order of a man with four children in a van behind her.

Hostetler says she asked him to tell the man “Happy Father’s Day,” then drove away.

The gesture prompted the man to pay for two cars behind him, and that generosity eventually spread to 167 cars by closing time.