A Woman awakes during the night to find her husband is not in bed. She puts on her robe and goes downstairs to look for him. She finds him sitting at the kitchen table with a hot cup of coffee in front of him. He appears to be in deep thought, just staring at the wall.
She watches as he wipes a tear from his eye and takes a sip of his coffee.
"What's the matter, dear?" She whispers as she steps
into the room, "Why are you down here at this time of night?" The husband looks up from his coffee, "It's the 30th Anniversary of the day we met".
She can't believe he has remembered and starts to tear up. The husband continues "Do you remember 30 years ago when we started dating? I was 22 and you were only 17," he says solemnly. Once again, the wife is touched to tears thinking that her husband is so caring and sensitive. "Yes, I do" she replies.
The husband pauses. The words were not coming easily. "Do you remember when your father caught us in the back seat of my Chevy?"
"Yes, I do" she replies, lowering herself in the chair beside him. The husband continues. "Do you remember when he shoved the shotgun in my face and said, "Either you marry my daughter or I will send you to prison for 30 years?" I remember that too" she replied softly.
He wiped another tear from his cheek and said "I would have gotten out today."
