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."

          -- Found in the Austin American Statesman