Impatient fat at the racetrack I couldn't buy online tickets so I decided to buy mine at the gate. I got there about 30-40 minutes before the race start and there was a line for pedestrians and a line for cars. A miserable, middle aged potbelly arrives shortly after me and joins the line. It couldn't have been more than 2 minutes before he calls a staff member and starts bitching about how slow everything is moving. He says they are "running a donkey show." He complains that lots more cars are getting through than people even after the staff member explains 3 times that they all have tickets they bought online and just need to be scanned, not bought. It's important to note there were 6 people in line and cars stretching back as far as you could see. You wouldn't even call ours a line, and again, we had been there 2-3 minutes. After the staff member gave-up, this guy kept bitching and so I told him to quit his whining. I said he should have got there earlier if he was so worried about queuing times. The gates opened 5 hours earlier, after all. I said we only have to wait 10 minutes and that's hardly a big deal. My logic was as ineffective as the staff members and he responded by continuing to complain about the speed of the car line, having still not grasped that they are not paying for tickets, just scanning. We were in line for a total of what couldn't have been more than 10 minutes before we were done. We were even treated to some classic muscle cars exiting to pass the time. Having purchased our tickets, though, we both headed straight for the circuit ... wait, no, that's not what happened. I went straight to the circuit and he made a beeline for the food stalls. I happened to spot him about half an hour into the race. He was obviously very concerned about missing some of the action due to queuing for tickets, but not so concerned about missing it due to queuing for slop and beer.  I found his attitude ironic considering it was an endurance race which demands patience and attrition. It's funny how fans never seem to embrace the qualities of the sports they watch.