BRAINERD, Minn. – The pay-it-forward gesture in fast-food drive-throughs reached perhaps a record at the Dairy Queen in town – 900 cars. Tina Jensen, DQ area manager, said not everybody picked up the full fare, but the stream was continuous for two days. Nearly $10,000 worth of food went out the window in the spontaneous, multi-day chain. That’s a lot of blizzards.

Carloads of generosity. Two days straight.