downtown post office

I have been going to the downtown post office to pick up mail for over 30 years now.  There is the same professional postal guy who delivers people's mail.  He has been here for all these years.  And he has not aged a day.  He is a tradition, a fixture.  And every once in a while he become a barometer for the sentiment of the city.
He is a Dallas Cowboy fan, thought he usually does not flaunt it.  But he had some very good comments during the Luv Ya Blue days.
Today he and a fellow he knew (he knows everybody) were loudly lamenting last night's result, saying, "Well we just have to deal with it!"  I'm not sure I know exactly where he stands on the result but he made it clear, we don't have to like it.  But we cannot change it.  We have to deal with it.  We may not understand how it could have happened.  We may wonder the sanity of so many people voting for four more years of mismanagement and deficit spending.  But have to get up the next day and deal with it.
Some of us certainly are in a sort of mourning.  It is a bit like losing a football game.  It's over.  We have to look ahead.  We have to pick up the pieces.  We have to deal with it.  We have to move on as best we can.
He made mention of the fact that our children will be the ones to bear the brunt of all this.  We did what we could.  People seemed oblivious to the facts.  We will likely not be here to see all the ramifications.  But we get up and get on with our lives.