Anthony Andersonwon’t be forgetting his recenttrip home from Best Buy with strangersanytime soon!
On Monday’s episode ofThe Ellen DeGeneres Show, theBlack-ishstar recalled the encounter he had with a couple, Alex and Charm, last month, in which Alex graciously offered him a ride home from the electronics store so he could have the three televisions he purchased home in time to catch the kickoff ofMarch Madnessthat evening.
“I was walking down the street one day and I realized I need to go into Best Buy and buy these televisions for my new apartment, because March Madness is gonna start and I wanted to watch the game that night,” said Anderson, 51. “So I go in there, buy some televisions, and they tell me they can’t deliver ‘em till Wednesday. I was like, ‘But it’s Saturday and I need to watch these games tonight.’ And the gentleman ahead of mewas like, ‘Hey, man, I’ll take you home.’ "
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Anthony Anderson and Ellen DeGeneres.Michael Rozman/Warner Bros.
Anderson told hostEllen DeGeneresthat it was him “and five Best Buy employees dragging these 65-inch televisions outside to his Dodge Durango truck that” the stranger, Alex, “didn’t tell me he had his lady friend in, and he didn’t tell me was full of work equipment.”
“So it was me and these five employees cleaning out his truck, including his lady, to put my televisions in and he was gonna leave his lady friend on the side of the road and come back for her,” the actor recalled. “I was like, ‘Hey, man, no, you can’t do that.’ He was like, ‘Oh, okay, yeah yeah. Well, you know, she’s bigger than me, so let me sit on her lap.’ And so he sat on her lap on the passenger side and I drove.”
Andersonjoked that he drove the carbecause he “didn’t want to get kidnapped,” explaining, “Because these were strange people and I feel if I’m behind the wheel driving the car, they’re not gonna do anything to me, ‘cause then we all gonna die.”
“But the thing about the car, I put it in drive and it didn’t move. And the gentleman was like, ‘Oh, man, you gotta put it in reverse,’ " he went on. “I was like, ‘But I’m trying to go forward.’ He was like, ‘Yeah, man, it’s my hoopty, you gotta put it in reverse.’ And he leaned over and put the car in reverse and I mashed on the gas and we went forward.”
“Nah, I didn’t want him to know where I live like that. You know, he is a stranger, Ellen,” Anderson quipped.
But to show his gratitude to Alex, “I did pay for his extended warranty on the television that he was buying,” the actor said.
“He was buying a projection television and I was like, ‘How much is the insurance?’ He was like, ‘$189.’ I was like, okay, I’ll get his insurance,‘cause gas is more expensivethan the insurance,” Anderson added. “So I was like, ‘I’ll pay for the extended warranty, not the gas.’ "
source: people.com
