Governor White and his wife were driving through the open Texas
countryside one day, out for a relaxing drive and talk
The couple happened to be around the area where Mrs. White grew up,
and as they pulled into a gas station to fuel up and check out the
car, Mark noticed a little nervousness with his wife. He didn't say
anything, but when the gas station attendant came out to their car,
Mark began to notice what was really going on. Both his wife and the
attendant looked surprised to see each other, and they acted with that
awkwardness that two people have when they've been close in the past,
but weren't anymore.
Governor White pretended not to notice this. They finished at the gas
station and continued back down the highway. The car fell silent and
neither said a word. For a long time they remained silent, and all the
while Mrs. White kept looking out the window, staring off out into the
distance. Mark was considerate and patient with this silence, and he
continued to drive in the silence. But after the silence had gone on
for almost an hour, he interrupted, trying to break the silence.
"Honey, I couldn't help but notice how you and that gas station
attendant looked at each other. You were involved with each other at
one point, weren't you," he asked ?
"Well, yea," She responded, quitely.
"Well, I guess I know how you feel. You were probably thinking about
that and needed some space, right," he continued ?
"Yea," she said again.
"I guess you were probably thinking about how different your two lives
had become. I guess you were thinking that if you had married him,
then you'd be the wife of a gas station attendant now, instead of my
wife. Right," he said ?
"Well, No. Actually I was thinking that he'd be the governor now."
