Excellent point. My response to Watergate was that it ruined my TV time for an entire summer break.
No matter what "drops", or "booms", or whatever, I still have to cut the grass and keep buying more coffee and toilet paper.
Life goes on.
I barely remember life without endless responsibility and ennui at this point.
Q has livened things up significantly.
Wish he'd come back, but I've never known anything to be permanent in life.