Grand Prix woes

It looks like I've missed out on my chance to go to the Chinese Grand Prix. Apparently, when the ticketing agency said "that ticket's available", what they meant was "it's not available". And because I thought they were taking my money, I (obviously) didn't simultaneously try and buy a ticket from someone else. With the result that now I don't have one.

People who don't care about motor racing, or even those who - unlike me - haven't followed Formula 1 since they were old enough to know what a car was, may not understand quite how disconsolate I am about this. This was my best chance to get to a GP ever, and a great race to go to as well. If I'm lucky, I may be able to go to the Macao GP (if they're still running it), which is a Monaco-style F3000 race.

The main thing that galls me about this is not merely that I'm now not going to the race, something I'd set my heart on months ago. It's that I know that, if I were a purchasing officer for a shoe company, with intention of watching any of the race, I could go for free.